In re REPETITIVE STRESS INJURY LITIGATION.
Marguerite DEBRUYNE; Peter Debruyne; Gayle Simms; James Simms; Madeline Bernice Strange; Robin A. Palley; Tonya Moore; Cathy Mercantini; Shirley Badon; James Badon; Karen Motchnik; Deborah Z. Zook; Thomas D. Zook; Linda E. Hughes; Arthur S. Hughes; Lorraine Nieves; Maryland Johnson Bush; Carol Jamieson; Thomas Jamieson; Carol Witzel; Edward S. Witzel; Eunice A. Chattman; Ronald W. Chattman; Pamela J. Holman; Terry Adamiak; Carmelita Tacbad; Mario Tacbad; Belinda Edwards; Karen M. Lawrence; William R. Lawrence; Eleanor M. Kelly; Robert M. Kelly; Joann N. Richmond; Adelle Martin; Robert D. Martin; Anna M. Burroughs; Raymond Burroughs; Margaret Johnson; James Johnson; Margaret Depaolo; Elizabeth D. Moore; Gerald R. Moore; Gladys Green; Amy L. Turrentine; Helen Countsouros; Anthony Countsouros; Gregory Timmons; Kathleen W. Trzeciak; Jane Teabout; Frances Manos; Sharon Kissling; Barbara Day; Maria Paruolo; Josephine Esposito; Denise D'Allesandro; Joan E. Bartek; Julius Bartek; Lorraine Jabkowski; Victor L. Jabkowski; Frances Diane Pollack; Alexander Pollack; Zorca S. Rada; Hugo Rada; Donna Scaffaro; Terrence Scaffaro; Dorothy Debiase; Judith Shoemaker; Benjamin Sotomayer; Argelia Ruiz, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION; Stenograph Corp.; Quixote Corporation; Atex, Inc.; Eastman Kodak Company; Globe Food Equipment Company; Northern Telecom Inc.; Northern Telecom Ltd.; Bell Canada; Bell Northern Research Ltd.; Kainsai Special USA Corp.; Data Point Corporation; Prime Computer Inc.; System Integrators, Inc.; Zenith Electronics Corp.; Zenith Data Systems, Inc.; Panasonic Company; Flore Industries Inc.; Lockheed Corporation; Ontel Corporation; Visual Technology Incorporated; NCR Corporation; Memorex Corporation; Memorex Telex Corp.; Apple Computer, Inc.; American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Apollo Computers Inc.; Hewlett Packard Company; Data General Corp. and as successor to Data-Checker Systems, Inc., Defendants,
Wang Laboratories, Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.
KAINSAI SPECIAL USA CORP., Third-Party Plaintiff,
v.
LEON LEVIN SONS, INC., Third-Party Defendant,
Compaq Computer Corp.; Zenith Data Systems, Intervenors.
Martha BAYLOR, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
XEROX CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant,
International Business Machines, Inc. and Prime Computer, Inc., Defendants.
Joan TANIN, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
STENOGRAPH CORP., Quixote Corporation, Defendants Appellants.
Verna Mae HOLLEY, Donald Holley, Dorothy Tarmel, Lucille Daniels, George Daniels, Linda G. Dimasi, Nicholas Soviero, Carol Soviero, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, NCR Corporation, Memorex Corporation, Memorex-Vacated. Telex Corp., American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Defendants,
NEC America, Inc., also known as Nippon Electric N.Y., NEC Business Communications Systems, Inc., formerly known as MTI Business Communication Systems, Inc., NEC Electronics, Inc., NEC Industries, Inc.; NEC Technologies, Inc., formerly known as NEC Electronics, USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.
Audrey HULSE, Lewis R. Hulse, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
APPLE COMPUTERS INC., Defendant,
Sony Corporation of America, Defendant-Appellant.
Margaret CARR, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
DATA GENERAL CORP., Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued May 21, 1993.
Decided December 9, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Steven J. Phillips, New York City (Alani Golanski, Danielle M. Goodman, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, New York City, Michael A. Ponterio, Lipsitz Green Fahringer Roll Salisbury & Cambria, Buffalo, NY, Arnold C. Lakind, Szaferman Lakind Blumstein Watter & Blader, Lawrenceville, NJ, Alaine S. Williams, Willig Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, PA, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.
Joseph A. D'Avanzo, White Plains, NY (Michael A. Cerussi, Jr., Mark C. Dillon, Kathleen A. Meagle, Cerussi & Spring, of counsel), for defendant-appellant International Business Machines Corp.
George M. Newcombe, New York City (Linda L. Mahoney, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, of counsel), for defendants-appellants NEC America, Inc., NEC Business Communication Systems (Central), Inc., NEC Electronics Inc., NEC Industries, Inc., and NEC Technologies, Inc.
Charles B. Updike, Michael E. Schoeman, Mark D. Miller, Schoeman, Marsh & Updike, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant Xerox Corp.
Eugene H. Lieber, Daniel S. Becker, Lieber & Lieber, New York City, of counsel, for defendants-appellants Stenograph Corp. and Quixote Corp.
Diane S. Wilner, Lee S. Gayer, Joel B. Rothman, Wilner & Associates, P.C., New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant Sony Corp. of America.
Marc S. Dreier, Margaret M. Harding, Fulbright & Jaworski, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant Data General Corp.
John S. Kiernan, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-intervenor Compaq Computer Corp.
Mark K. Anesh, H. Michael O'Brien, Larry H. Lum, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman, & Dicker, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-intervenor Zenith Data Systems, Inc.
Robert D. Owen, James H. Neale, Owen & Davis, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Before: MESKILL, WINTER and PRATT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Defendants-appellants International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") and Wang Laboratories, Inc. ("Wang") appeal from Judge Weinstein's order ("Weinstein Order"), In re: Repetitive Stress Injury Cases, 142 F.R.D. 584 (E.D.N.Y.1992), granting the plaintiffs-appellees' motion to consolidate the forty-four cases in the Eastern District of New York that assert a claim for damages for "repetitive stress injuries." Defendants-appellants...
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