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IN RE ALLIED-SIGNAL INC.

No. 89-1823.

891 F.2d 967 (1989)

In re ALLIED-SIGNAL INC., et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., New Haven, Conn., with whom Stephen H. Sachs, Baltimore, Md., Andrew B. Weissman, Alan N. Braverman, Joseph E. Killory, Jr., Washington, D.C., Teresa D. Baer and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, were on brief for petitioners.

Arthur R. Miller, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Sherrill Hondorf, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Peter Berkowitz, Alvaro Calderon, Hato Rey, P.R., Stanley M. Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio, John Cummings, III, New Orleans, La., Wendell H. Gauthier, Metairie, La., David C. Indiano, Will Kemp, Las Vegas, Nev., Harvey B. Nachman, Santurce, P.R., Jorge Ortiz Brunet, Hato Rey, P.R., Jorge M. Suro-Ballester and Francisco M. Troncoso, were on brief for respondents, The Plaintiffs' Steering Committee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.

BREYER, Circuit Judge.

A group of defendants, currently engaged in a highly complex mass tort litigation, have filed a mandamus petition asking us to disqualify the judge and to declare a mistrial because two of the judge's law clerks have brothers who represent plaintiffs. After reviewing the special circumstances of this litigation, we conclude that it would not be proper for us to provide the relief these defendants seek. We therefore deny the defendants' petition...

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