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IN RE FACTOR VIII OR IX CONCEN. BLOOD PROD. LIT.

Nos. 98-1438, 98-1770 and 98-1629.

159 F.3d 1016 (1998)

In re FACTOR VIII OR IX CONCENTRATE BLOOD PRODUCTS LITIGATION, Appeals of Roy G. Spece, Jr., Rose Marie Ibanez, and Mull & Mull. In re MULL & MULL.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 19, 1998.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Arceneaux (submitted), Barham & Arceneaux, New Orleans, LA, for Mull & Mull.

Fred T. Magaziner, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, for Baxter Healthcare Corporation.

David I. Bell, Knapp, Peterson & Clarke, Glendale, CA, for Alpha Therapeutic Corporation.

Geoffrey R.W. Smith, Washington, DC, for Bayer Corporation.

Sara J. Gourley, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Incorporated, Armour Pharmaceutical Company.

David S. Shrager, Shrager, McDaid, Loftus, Flum & Spivey, Philadelphia, PA, pro se, Dianne M. Nast, Roda & Nast, Lancaster, PA, pro se Amicus Curiae and for Susan Walker, and Members of the Class.

Roy G. Spece, Jr., Tucson, AZ, pro se.

Rose Marie Ibanez, Tucson, AZ, pro se.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Five years ago, a nationwide class action was filed on behalf of hemophiliacs who had been infected in the early 1980s with AIDS virus (HIV) contained in blood solids manufactured and sold by the defendant drug companies for the treatment of hemophilia. Blood solids are manufactured from blood sold or donated to blood banks, and the defendants had failed either to screen the blood for HIV or to process the blood in a way that would kill any HIV...

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