STATE OF N.Y. BY VACCO v. REEBOK INTERN. LTD.

No. 1478, Docket 95-9154.

96 F.3d 44 (1996)

STATE OF NEW YORK, by Attorney General Dennis C. VACCO; State of Alabama, by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; State of Alaska, by Attorney General Bruce Botelho; State of Arizona, by Attorney General Grant Woods; State of Arkansas, by Attorney General Winston Bryant; State of California, by Attorney General Daniel E. Lungren; State of Colorado, by Attorney General Gale A. Norton; State of Connecticut, by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal; State of Delaware, by Attorney General M. Jane Brady; District of Columbia, by Corporation Counsel Garland Pinkston; State of Florida, by Attorney General Robert A. Butterworth; State of Georgia, by Attorney General Michael J. Bowers; State of Hawaii, by Attorney General Margery S. Bronster; State of Idaho, by Attorney General Alan G. Lance; State of Illinois, by Attorney General Jim Ryan; State of Indiana, by Attorney General Pamela Carter; State of Iowa, by Attorney General Thomas J. Miller; State of Kansas, by Attorney General Carla J. Stovall; Commonwealth of Kentucky, by Attorney General Chris Gorman; State of Louisiana, by Attorney General Richard P. Ieyoub; State of Maine, by Attorney General Andrew Ketterer; State of Maryland, by Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr.; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by Attorney General Scott Harshbarger; State of Michigan, by Attorney General Frank J. Kelly; State of Minnesota, by Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey, III; State of Mississippi, by Attorney General Mike Moore; State of Missouri, by Attorney General Jeremiah Nixon; State of Montana, by Attorney General Joseph M. Mazurek; State of Nebraska, by Attorney General Don Stenberg; State of Nevada, by Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa; State of New Hampshire, by Attorney General Jeffrey R. Howard; State of New Jersey, by Attorney General Deborah T. Portiz; State of New Mexico, by Attorney General Tom Udall; State of North Carolina, by Attorney General Michael F. Easley; State of North Dakota, by Attorney General Heida Heitkamp; State of Ohio, by Attorney General Betty D. Montgomery; State of Oklahoma, by Attorney General Drew Edmondson; State of Oregon, by Attorney General Theodore R. Kulongski; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Attorney General Ernest D. Preate, Jr.; Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, by Attorney General Pedro D. Pierluisi; State of Rhode Island, by Attorney General Jeffrey B. Pine; State of South Carolina, by Attorney General Charles Molony Condon; State of South Dakota, by Attorney General Mark W. Barnett; State of Tennessee, by Attorney General Patricia J. Cottrell; State of Texas, by Attorney General Dan Morales; State of Utah, by Attorney General Jan Graham; State of Vermont, by Attorney General Jeffrey L. Amestoy; Commonwealth of Virginia, by Attorney General James S. Gilmore, III; State of Washington, by Attorney General Christine O. Gregoire; State of West Virginia, by Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw, Jr.; State of Wisconsin, by Attorney General James E. Doyle, Jr.; State of Wyoming, by Attorney General William U. Hill; U.S. Virgin Islands, by Attorney General Julio Brady, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Sylvia Donnenfeld and Eduardo A. Lopez, Appellants, v. REEBOK INTERNATIONAL LTD., the Rockport Company, Inc. and John Does 1-500, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Jones Harbour, Assistant Attorney General, New York City (Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General of the State of New York, Victoria A. Graffeo, Solicitor General, John H. Carley, Deputy Attorney General, Stephen D. Houck, Linda J. Gargiulo, Robert L. Hubbard, John A. Ioannou, Assistant Attorneys General, New York City, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

David A. Martland, Boston, MA (Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, Boston, MA, Steven E. Greenbaum, Berlack, Israels & Liberman, New York City, Michael Nachwalter, Kenny, Nachwalter, Miami, FL, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.

Thomas A. Paigo, Hialeah, FL (Carlos Lidsky, Hialeah, FL, of counsel), for Appellants.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, MAHONEY and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:

This appeal challenges the district court's approval of the settlement of a parens patriae suit brought pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 15c by the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (collectively the "States") against Reebok International Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Rockport Company, as well as unidentified "John Does" (collectively "Reebok") alleging...

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