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IN RE SCHOOL ASBESTOS LITIGATION

Nos. 91-1887, 91-1917, 91-1943, 91-1981, 91-2105, 92-1014, 92-1053 and 92-1084.

977 F.2d 764 (1992)

In re SCHOOL ASBESTOS LITIGATION. PFIZER INC., Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, Barnwell School District No. 45, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents, Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec, Ltee., Intervenor. KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Respondents, Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec, Ltee, Intervenor. ACandS, INC., Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, Barnwell School District No. 45, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents, Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec, Ltee, Intervenor. ASTEN GROUP, INC., Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, Barnwell School District No. 45, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents, Lac D'Amiante Du Quebec, Ltee, Intervenor. W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN., Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, Barnwell School District No. 45, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents. ASTEN GROUP, INC., Dana Corporation, Pfizer, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, and W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn., Petitioners, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, Barnwell School District No. 45, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, and a Conditionally Certified Class, Respondents. KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. The Honorable James McGirr KELLY, Nominal Respondent, School District of Lancaster, Manheim Township School District, Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1992.

As Amended October 23, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Bruton (argued), John A. Singer, Piper & Marbury, Rolin P. Bissell, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for Pfizer Inc.

Patrick J. Hagan, Kincaid, Gianunzio, Caudle & Hubert, P.C., Oakland, Cal., Daniel J. Ryan, Jr., Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., Thomas W. Kirby (argued), Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, D.C., for Kaiser Cement Corp.

Alfred A. Gollatz, Donna Bailey McCarthy, Mary Anne Taufen, Gollatz, Griffin, Ewing & McCarthy, West Chester, Pa., for ACandS, Inc.

Robert P. Corbin, Deborah M. Knight, German, Gallagher & Murtagh, Philadelphia, Pa., for Asten Group, Inc.

David Booth Beers, Wendy S. White, Richard A. Nagareda, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., for Cassiar Min. Corp.

Frederick B. Lacey, Molly S. Boast, Thomas Fenerty, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, Edward W. Madeira, Jr., Richard W. Foltz, Jr., Matthew H. Adler, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for Lac D'Amiante du Quebec, Ltee.

Denis McInerney, Allen S. Joslyn (argued), Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.

Walter S. Jenkins, Sweeney, Sheehan & Spencer, Philadelphia, Pa., John D. Briggs, Marguerite S. Boyd, Robert L. Green, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., for Dana Corp.

Andrew J. Trevelise, Reed Smith & McClay, Philadelphia, Pa., R. Cornelius Danaher, Jr., Albert P. Lenge, Danaher, Tedford, Langnese & Neil, Hartford, Conn., for Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

John H. Lewis, Jr., Joseph B.G. Fay, J. Gordon Cooney, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for U.S. Gypsum Co.

Alan Klein (argued), David Gutin, Leslie Thoman Bradley, Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Herbert B. Newberg, Harvey S. Kronfeld (argued), Sandra L. Duggan (argued), Roger P. Cameron, Kronfeld, Newberg & Duggan, David Berger (argued), Harold Berger, Thomas F. Hughes, David Berger, Attorneys at Law, Arnold Levin (argued), Laurence S. Berman, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, Pa., for class plaintiffs.

Before: BECKER, HUTCHINSON, and ALITO, Circuit Judges.

                              TABLE OF CONTENTS
    I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 769
   II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY OF THE OVERALL LITIGATION ...................... 771
  III. GENERAL STANDARDS REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY
        OF MANDAMUS ...................................................... 772
   IV. THE PETITIONS RELATING TO DISQUALIFICATION ........................ 774
       A. Mandamus as a Means to Review...

                    
                    
                    

                        

                            

                                
                            

                            

                                

                                    
    
                                        
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