IN RE NINETEEN APPEALS ARISING OUT OF the SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Resnik, with whom Dennis E. Curtis, Richard A. Bieder, Joan C. Harrington, Michael A. Stratton, and Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., were on brief, for appellants Bieder, Nachman, Rivera-Garcia, Moreda-Toledo, Anduze-Montano, Buso-Aboy, Suro-Ballester, Weinstock, Levine, and Mellado-Gonzalez, et al.

Douglas G. Brown, Ronald E. Hermanson, and Harold V. Sullivan II on brief, for appellants Ayala Cruz, Miranda, Brown, and Sullivan, et al.

Hirshman & Levine on brief, for appellant Levine.

Arthur R. Miller, with whom Stanley Chesley, Wendell Gauthier, John Cummings, David Indiano, and Will Kemp were on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, LAY, Senior Circuit Judge, O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.