Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Leonard C. Jaques, Michael J. Connor, The Jaques Admiralty Law Firm, Detroit, MI, for appellants.
Elihu Inselbuch, Charles Sanders McNew, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, New York City, Steven Kazan, Kazen, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Oakland, CA, for Ahearn, Dennis, Jeep, Ellison and Mitchell.
Harry Fred Wartnick, San Francisco, CA, for Ahearn, Dennis and Jeep, appellees.
Joseph F. Rice, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC, Peter Van Lockwood, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered, Washington, DC, Joseph B. Cox, Jr., Cox & Cox, Sullivan's Island, SC, for Ahearn, Dennis, Jeep and Ellison, appellees.
Eric D. Green, Boston, MA, for Dennis and Jeep, appellees.
Bruce L. Ahnfeldt, Napa, CA, for Juanita Drake, appellee.
Clinton A. Krislov, Krislov & Associates, Chicago, IL, Ronald W. Lupton, Stinson, Lupton and Weiss, Bath, ME, for Roland and Judith Dearborn, Butcher and Longshore Intervenor, appellees.
Michael Scott Hertzig, Washington, DC, for Dir., Workers Comp., Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Dept. of Labor, appellee.
Kelly C. Wooster, Stephen M. Snyder, William R. Irwin, James L. Miller, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, CA, for Fibreboard Corp.
Herbert Maurice Wachtell, Meyer G. Koplow, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, Donald T. Ramsey, David M. Rice, Rodney L. Eshelman, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, San Francisco, CA, for Continental Cas. Co., Columbia Cas. Co. and CNA Cas. Co. of Cal., appellees in both cases.
Billy Glynn Parker, Ireland, Carroll and Kelley, Tyler, TX, for Continental Cas. Co., appellee.
Paul J. Bschorr, Richard B. Sypher, Dewey Ballantine, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, for Pacific Indemnity, appellee.
Richard L. Josephson, Baker and Botts, Houston, TX, Robert B. Shaw, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, L.L.P., Columbia, SC, for Owens-Illinois Inc., appellee in both cases.
Gary A. Bresee, Barger and Wolen, San Francisco, CA, for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee in 95-40635.
Stuart Philip Ross, Ross, Dixon and Masback, Washington, DC, for Columbia Cas. Co. and CNA Cas. Co. of Cal., appellees.
Charles P. Schropp, Schropp, Buell & Elligett, Tampa, FL, for Celotex Corp., appellee.
Arthur H. Bryant, Anne W. Bloom, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, DC, for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, amicus curiae in both cases.
Jeffrey Robert White, Pamela A. Liapakis, Associated Trial Lawyers of America, Washington, DC, for Association of Trial Lawyers of America, amicus curiae in both cases.
Craig A. Berrington, David F. Snyder, James L. Kimble, American Insurance Association, Washington, DC, for American Insurance Association, amicus curiae in both cases.
Scott McCullen Baldwin, Baldwin & Baldwin, Marshall, TX, for Asbestos Victims of America, amicus curiae in both cases.
James E. Coleman, Jr., Diane M. Sumoski, John Andrew Martin, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, TX, for Rudd, White and Hansel, appellees.
Robert L. Shaw, Westmoreland, KS, pro se.
J. Russell Stedman, Barger and Wolen, San Francisco, CA, for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, appellee in 95-40694.
Frederick M. Baron, Brent M. Rosenthal, Steve Baughman (argued), Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, TX, Sidney Katherine Powell (argued), S. Ann Saucer, Powell & Associates, Dallas, TX, for Ortiz, Cochran, Taylor, Allgood and Evers, amicus curiae.
Before REAVLEY, DAVIS and SMITH, Circuit Judges.