IN RE SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION

No. 92-2216.

989 F.2d 36 (1993)

In re SAN JUAN DUPONT PLAZA HOTEL FIRE LITIGATION. HOLDERS CAPITAL CORPORATION, et al., Cross-Claimants, Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Cross-Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Bostwick, with whom R. Lance Belsome was on brief, for cross-claimants, appellants.

Ralph W. Dau and Andrew K. Epting, Jr., with whom Peter B. Ackerman, Jeffrey W. Kilduff, O'Melveny & Myers, Raul E. Gonzalez-Diaz, A.J. Bennazar-Zequeira, Gonzalez & Bennazar, G. Trenholm Walker, Wise & Cole, Homer L. Marlow, William G. Liston, Marlow, Shofi, Connelly, Velerius, Abrams, Lowe & Adler, Paul K. Connolly, Jr., Damian R. LaPlaca, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Deborah A. Pitts, Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, Lon Harris, Harris & Green, Bethany K. Culp, Patrick McCoy, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, Stuart W. Axe, Lester, Schwab, Katz & Dwyer, Francisco J. Colon-Pagan, Adrian Mercado, Mercado & Soto, Marcos Perez Cruz, Virgilio Mendez Cuesta, Ernesto Rodriguez-Suris, and Latimer, Biaggi, Rachid, Rodriguez-Suris & Godreau were on brief, for cross-defendants, appellees.

Before SELYA and CYR, Circuit Judges, and FUSTE, District Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

We approach once more the lair of the fabled "litigatory monster," In re Recticel Foam Corp., 859 F.2d 1000, 1001 (1st Cir. 1988), spawned by the deadly fire which engulfed the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel on December 31, 1986. In this appeal, three entities interested in the ownership and operation of the hotel contest the district court's entry of summary judgment in favor of a group of seventeen insurers...

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