CROCKER v. BORDEN, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 94-1303 to 94-1313.

852 F.Supp. 1322 (1994)

Joseph CROCKER, Louis Duplantis, Roman Duronsolet, Sr., Arthur Evans, Willie Jackson, Nelson Laborde, Dean Mefferd, Colbert Ordoyne, Lester Plaisance, Louis Rodriguez v. BORDEN, INC., et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

May 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Barnett Murray, Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Mitchell Harry Tyner, Wm. Roberts Wilson, Jr., P.A., New Orleans, LA, Ronald C. Morton, New Orleans, LA, for Joseph Crocker.

Michael T. Cali, Darryl J. Foster, Randall A. Fish, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for Borden, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

James Stephen Thompson, William G. Argeros, Allen Lewis Smith, III, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, LA, for Fibreboard Corp.

Robert Emmett Kerrigan, Jr., Arthur Wendel Stout, III, William Claudy Harrison, Jr., Lisa Cutitto Winter, Janet L. MacDonell, Gary Barkley Roth, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, LA, for Flexitallic Inc., GAF Corp.

Maria I. O'Byrne Stephenson, Earl N. Vaughan, Lisa Carol Matthews, Catherine Irvin Chavarri, Law Offices of Maria I. O'Byrne Stephenson, New Orleans, LA, Thomas W. Tyner, Aultman, Tyner, McNeese & Ruffin, Hattiesburg, MS, for Garlock Inc., Anchor Packing Co.

Richard L. Forman, Walter G. Watkins, Jr., Ronald D. Collins, John D. Cosmich, Forman, Perry, Watkins & Krutz, Jackson, MS, John Randall Santa Cruz, New Orleans, LA, for Owens Illinois, Inc., Uniroyal, Inc.

James Stephen Thompson, William G. Argeros, Allen Lewis Smith, III, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, LA, Henry G. Garrard, III, Rikard L. Bridges, Michael C. Daniel, Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Bryant, P.C., Athens, GA, for Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

Maria I. O'Byrne Stephenson, Earl N. Vaughan, Lisa Carol Matthews, Catherine Irvin Chavarri, Law Offices of Maria I. O'Byrne Stephenson, New Orleans, LA, for Rock Wool Mfg. Co.

Andrew Lane Plauche, Jr., Plauche, Maselli & Landry, New Orleans, LA, for American Motorists Ins. Co.

Rebecca Ann Bush, Ashley Carter Plunkett, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for A.W. Chesterton Co.

Samuel Milton Rosamond, III, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrigue, New Orleans, LA, for Commercial Union Ins. Co.

Geoffrey Powell Snodgrass, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, LA, for Highlands Ins. Co.

Kaye N. Courington, Woodley, Williams, Fenet, Boundreau & Brown, New Orleans, LA, for Hopeman Bros. Inc.

Ralph Shelton Hubbard, III, Gordon Peter Wilson, Lugenbuhl, Burke, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans, LA, for Travelers Ins. Co.

James C. Gulotta, Jr., Mary L. Dumestre, Dane S. Ciolino, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, for Certain Underwriters of Lloyds.

Sean Francis O. Murphy, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, McLean, VA, Godfrey Bruce Parkerson, Barbara Lee Arras, Patricia A. Lynch, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, Michael A. Abel, Waller T. Dudley, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, VA, for Westinghouse Elec. Corp.


ORDER AND REASONS

LIVAUDAIS, District Judge.

These ten civil actions were removed from state court by Westinghouse Electric Corporation ("Westinghouse"), a third-party defendant to a third-party claim by defendant/third-party plaintiff Owens-Corning Fiberglas ("OCF"), pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), the federal officer removal statute. Plaintiffs filed a motion to remand all actions and sought expedited hearing on the motion inasmuch as these...

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