IN RE A.H. ROBINS CO., INC.

No. 85-01307-R.

89 B.R. 555 (1988)

In re A.H. ROBINS COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Debtor.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

August 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Budnitz, Securities & Exchange Commission, Atlanta, Ga.

Theodore I. Brenner, Stephen W. Bricker, Brenner, Baber & Janus, Richmond, Va.

Francis E. McGovern, Birmingham, Ala.

Michael A. Cooper, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City.

Clifford Shoemaker, Vienna, Va.

H. Sean Mathis Jesup & Lamont Capital Corp., New York City.

Joseph S. Friedberg, Minneapolis, Minn.

Richard M. Wexwell, Fairfax, Va., Bradley Post, Douglas Bragg, Robert Mancahster, Neal Rossman, Judith Rentschler, for Certain MDL 211 Claimants.

Robert Miller, James Nolan, Bishop, Liberman & Cook, New York City, for Share Holders Committee.

Robert M. Miller, James M. Nolan, David A. Strumwasser, Bishop, Liberman & Cook, New York City, Ross C. Reeves, Willcox & Savage, P.C., Norfolk, Va., for Official Committee of Equity Sec. Holders.

Stanley K. Joynes, III, Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds, Richmond, Va., for Legal Representative of Future Tort Claimants.

W. Scott Street, William H. Schwarzschild, III, (Tracie) Lynn F. Jacob, Williams, Mullen & Christian, Richmond, Va., Jan Z. Krasnoweicki, (Yaun Z. Kras-No-Wee-A-Ski) and John G. Harkins, Jr., Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.

Peter A. Ivanick, LeBogue, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, Steven J. McCardell, LeBogue, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Salt Lake City, Utah, for The Examiner (Ralph Maybey).

Paul M. Vincent, Lindsay G. Robertson, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, Washington, D.C., for Longbranch Research Associates.

Thomas F. Eubank, Spinella, Owings & Shaia, Richmond, Va., J. Thomas Lenhart, L. Duane Cheek, Philip J. Harvey, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D.C., for McGladrey, Hendrickson & Pullen.

James C. Roberts, William R. Cogar, Barbara T. Derry, James S. Crockett, Jr., Bradfute W. Davenport, III, Fred W. Palmore, III, Clifford W. Perrin, Jr., C. Cotesworth Pinckney, Linda J. Thomason, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Va., Harvey Johnson, Dennis J. Drebsky, Michael L. Cook, William F. Gray, Jr., Carolyn Hewitt, Peter Clapp, Sally M. Henry, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, Penn Ayers Butler, Murphy Weir & Butler, San Francisco, Cal., for A.H. Robins.

John Waites, U.S. Trustee, Alexandria, Va., Norman E. Oliver, Asst. U.S. Trustee, Linda W. Coppinger, Norfolk, Va.

S. David Schiller, Asst. U.S. Atty., Robert W. Jaspen, Henry E. Hudson, Stuart Fischbein, Richmond, Va., for U.S.

Harold S. Novikoff, Leonard M. Rosen, Lawrence P. King, Amy R. Wolf, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, M. Caldwell Butler, James F. Douthat, John Jessey, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, Roanoke, Va., for Official Unsecured Creditors Committee.

Murray Drabkin, Mark Ellenberg, James Wallack, Peter M. Dodson, Imogene Lehman, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., Lawrence B. Cann, III, George B. Little, Little, Parsley & Cluverius, Richmond, Va., for Committee of Representatives of Dalkon Shield Claimants.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

The matter before the Court addresses the issue as to the propriety of allowing a claim for punitive damages to women who were allegedly injured by the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device ("Dalkon Shield," "IUD") within the context of this Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. Although the issue may, by virtue of the approved plan of reorganization, be moot, the Court, in the interest...

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