IN RE SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LIT.

No. 89-2049.

907 F.2d 4 (1990)

In re SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION. Appeal of ALLIED-SIGNAL, INC., et al.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine K. Yunker, with whom Victor B. Maddox, Brown, Todd & Heyburn, Lexington, Ky., Hector Melendez Cano, Trias, Doval, Acevedo & Otero, Hato Rey, P.R., Benjamin Acosta, Jr., Law Offices of Benjamin Acosta, Jr., San Juan, P.R., Edward A. Moss, Lawrence D. King, Anderson, Moss, Parks & Russo, P.A., Miami, Fla., Eric A. Tulla and Rivera, Tulla & Ferrer, Hato Rey, P.R., were on joint brief, for appellants.

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

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal arises from Partial Judgment No. 47 dismissing Defendants Carol Cable, Inc., Mobay Corporation, and Tarkett, Inc. (the "Settling Defendants") with prejudice from the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation, MDL-721, which was consolidated and transferred to the District of Puerto Rico in May 1987. In December 1987, the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee (PSC) filed a Revised Master Complaint, naming as defendants (1) those persons and entities...

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