SHULTS v. CHAMPION INTERN. CORP.

No. 93-5771.

35 F.3d 1056 (1994)

J.A. SHULTS and Joan Shults, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Hugh Brown, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1994.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied November 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Jessee (briefed), Jessee & Jessee, Johnson City, TN, Gordon Ball, Herbert S. Moncier, Knoxville, TN, Don Barrett, Lexington, MS, Gary E. Brewer, Morristown, TN, Wade C. Hoyt, III, Rome, GA, Paul E. Merrell (argued and briefed), Ralph A. Bradley, Bradley & Merrell, Tidewater, OR, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul Merrell, pro se.

W. Kyle Carpenter, Louis C. Woolf (argued and briefed), Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Knoxville, TN, Barbara Wrubel (briefed), Sheila L. Birnbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flow, New York City, for defendant-appellee.

Before: GUY and BOGGS, Circuit Judges; and CLELAND, District Judge.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied November 7, 1994.

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

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