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IN RE FIBREBOARD CORP.

Nos. 89-4937, 89-4945 and 90-4015.

893 F.2d 706 (1990)

In re FIBREBOARD CORPORATION, Petitioner. In re PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION, Petitioner. In re ACANDS, INC., Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 25, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Daggett, Thomas M. Peterson, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., R. Lyn Stevens, Weller, Wheelus & Green, Beaumont, Tex., for Fibreboard Corp.

Henry G. Garrard, III, Gary B. Blasingame, Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Bryant, Athens, Ga., Robert Fanning, Phillip S. Brown, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Dallas, Tex., for Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

Kevin R. Tully, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, La., Jerry Kacal, Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas & Law, Houston, Tex., Frank H. Griffin, III, Gollatz, Griffin, Ewing & McCarthy, Philadelphia, Pa., for Acands, Inc.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Defendants Fibreboard Corporation and Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, joined by other defendants, petition for writ of mandamus, asking that we vacate pretrial orders consolidating 3,031 asbestos cases for trial entered by Judge Robert Parker, Eastern District of Texas.

In 1986 there were at least 5,000 asbestos-related cases pending in this circuit. We then observed that "because asbestos-related diseases will continue...

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