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Heard October 6, 1989.
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.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
Forty-five (of 78) defendants in the Phase Two trial of the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel fire litigation (which we have described in In re Allied Signal,891 F.2d 967, 968-969, (1st Cir.1989) ("Allied Signal I") including 35 of the 49 defendants who brought the petition in No. 89-1823 and 10 others, have brought a second petition for mandamus asking us to order Judge Acosta to disqualify himself...
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