WATSON v. SHELL OIL CO.

No. 91-3449.

979 F.2d 1014 (1992)

Troy WATSON, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY and Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc., Defendants-Appellants. Robert ADAMS, Sr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY and Brown & Root, U.S.A., Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Cummings, III, New Orleans, La., argued, Robert R. Faucheux, Richard M. Millet, LaPlace, La., Robert F. Fadaol, Gretna, La., Joseph W. McKearn, William C. McGehee, New Orleans, La., Thomas F. Daley, LaPlace, La., Mark Marino, Destrehan, La., Gary D. Irby, Boutte, La., Daniel S. Foley, New Orleans, La., Madeline Jasmine, Edgard, La., Eric A. Holden, Franklin M. Adkins, Jack Stolier, New Orleans, La., James Guest, Kenner, La., John Cummings, III, Daniel Becnel, Jr., Reserve, La., Wendell Gauthier, Metairie, La., Calvin C. Fayard, Jr., Denham Springs, La., Stephen Murray, Morris Reed, New Orleans, La., William Sibley, Greenburg, La., Thomas Kliebert, Jr., Gramercy, La., Joseph Bruno, Eldon E. Fallon, J. Robert Ates, New Orleans, La., Jack W. Harang, Stuart H. Smith, Metairie, La., Robert T. Hughes, New Orleans, La., Steven F. Griffith, Destrehan, La., David W. Robinson, Baton Rouge, La., Frank J. D'Amico, Jr., New Orleans, La., Douglas St. Romain, Thomas G. Milazzo, Metairie, La., Morris W. Reed, Timothy J. Falcon, New Orleans, La., Jude H. Trahant, Jr., Mr. A. Gill Dyer, Metairie, La., Ronald P. Thibodeaux, Gretna, La., Laurence Cohen, Martin E. Regan, Jr., Issidro Rene De Rojas, Deonne DuBarry, David Paul Bains, R. Ray Orrill, Jr., Robert F. Shearman, New Orleans, La., Kernan Hand, David K. Joyce, Kenner, La., David Oestreicher, Curtis J. Coney, Jr., Robert G. Harvey, P. Colleen Coffield, Frank A. Silvestri, New Orleans, La., Darryl J. Carimi, James C. Klick, Gretna, La., Margaret E. Woodward, New Orleans, La., Gerald J. Arceneaux, Westwego, La., Clare Jupiter, New Orleans, La., Thomas C. Cerullo, Patricia M. Franz, Metairie, La., Harry E. Forst, Wayne H. Carlton, Jr., Robert B. Sharp, Orlando G. Bendana, New Orleans, La., Edward J. Schmidt, II, Jefferson, La., Donald F. DeBoisblan, Catherine Leary, Patrick D. McArdle, Laura E. Fahy, Darleen J. Jacobs, Charles W. Dittmer, Eugene G. Taggart, Nora F. McAlister, New Orleans, La., David L. Colvin, Daryl A. Higgins, Windhorst, Gaudry, Talley & Ranson, Gretna, La., John D. Malone, John H. Wells, Herbert A. Cade, Daria L. Burgess, Herman C. Hoffman, New Orleans, La., Paul L. Billingsley, Luling, La., Thomas A. Cardell, New Orleans, La., Kenneth V. Ward, Jr., Metairie, La., Deonne DuBarry, New Orleans, La., Julie Ann Burke, Leon C. Vial, III, Hahnville, La., Vernon P. Thomas, New Orleans, La., Giles Duplechin, Gretna, La., Dennis J. Dannel, Fred J. Cassibry, New Orleans, La., Randy Lewis, Luling, La., Cynthia Davison, New Orleans, La., Ronnie J. Berthelot, Baton Rouge, La., Robert J. Caluda, New Orleans, La., Cassius Bering, Mary Bering, Michael Bering, Norco, La., Nita Gorrell, Special Mawter, Hammond, La., Vincent J. DeSalvo, Baton Rouge, La., Harold J. Lamy, J. Robert Ates, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Ellis Young, pro se.

Gary Dennis, pro se.

Gail Simmons, pro se.

Thomas J. Wyllie, argued, James Holmes, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, REYNALDO G. GARZA and WIENER, Circuit Judges.


POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Shell Oil Company and Brown and Root, U.S.A., Inc., defendants in this mass-tort class action, have permissibly appealed interlocutory orders in this diversity suit. The orders at issue define the class and class issues, designate class representatives, and set a trial plan. Finding neither error nor abuse of discretion, for the reasons assigned we affirm the proposed trial plan.

I. Background

This litigation arises out...

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