ABUAN v. GENERAL ELEC. CO.

Nos. 92-15476, 92-15662.

3 F.3d 329 (1993)

Bartolome E. ABUAN, et al., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.; Monsanto Company, Defendants-Appellees. Bartolome E. ABUAN, et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., Defendant, and Monsanto Company, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan C. Milstein, Leon H. Rose, Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky, Pennsauken, NJ, for appellants-cross-appellees.

Steven R. Kuney, Mark A. Grannis, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, and John E. Moore, Thomas L. Roberts, Moore, Ching, Boertzel & Lawlor, Agana, Guam, for appellee General Elec. Co.

Charles F. Preuss, Vernon I. Zvoleff, Preuss, Walker & Shanagher, Jose H. Garcia, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, San Francisco, CA, and J. Bradley Klemm, Klemm, Blair, Sterling & Johnson, Agana, Guam, for appellee-cross-appellant Monsanto Co.

Before: WALLACE, Chief Judge, and D.W. NELSON and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.


D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

In May of 1987, an electrical transformer ruptured at the Piti Power Plant on the United States Naval Base in Guam, releasing a variety of toxic chemicals. Appellant Bartolome Abuan and a similarly situated class of plaintiffs ("Plaintiffs") sued General Electric Company ("GE") and Monsanto Company ("Monsanto") for injuries arising from the accident. The district court granted defendants' motions for summary judgment. Plaintiffs appeal...

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