AKIN v. ASHLAND CHEMICAL

No. 97-6030.

156 F.3d 1030 (1998)

James E. AKIN; Richard G. Arellano; Charles L. Baldwin; Annie M. Barnes; Terry D. Blain; Marcia Bannock; Delton E. Brown; Timothy L. Caraway; Thomas W. Clark; Richard Cotey; Connie Cottrell; Ronnie D. Cottrell; Steven L. Coy; Hugh Crow; Nathan D'Amico; Donna M. Davis; Louis R. Dickinson; Ollie Dillishaw, Jr.; Danny L. Dunn; Jenny L. Duren; Bill R. Durington; Steven Ray Duty; Leon Ealon; Debra M. Emerich; Janette K. Farley; Jon G. Gabbard; Linda D. Gatewood; Max R. Glover; Wendell P. Gomez; Eric L. Janousek; David Keiser; Larry D. Lidell; Robert C. Love; Jack L. Manning; Thomas Marshall; Michael D. Mowles; Jeffrey Murray; Melvin E. Norton; Zenephor Overstreet; James M. Owen; Terry W. Oxley; Ronald K. Peoples; Michael Phillips; Marie L. Plumlee; Phillip Plumlee; Rick Reames; Jack D. Rhoden; Wayne Richardson; Norma Roberts; Charlon S. Rogers; Sandra Rolland; Marlys Rone; Judy A. Rowland; Tony E. Ruble; Reatha R. Schlegel; Gloria Shelton, as representative of the estate of Wilton F. Shelton, deceased; Charlie Sheppard; Herman D. Sikes; William D. Slattery; Clayton D. Statsny; Melissa C. Statsny; Gayla S. Staton; Martha J. Storozyszyn; Rick L. Stuart; Mike Sullivan; Emmett Thomas, Jr.; Benjamin Tingle; Marilyn J. Tracey; Helen Walker; Randy F. Wiens; Leonard Williams; Leonard Williams; Morten D. Williams; Glenda Wright; Herman Dale Wright; Kenneth L. Wright; Albert A. Wyatt; James D. Wyatt; Johnnie R. York; Larry N. Smith; Danny Driskill; Gerald Houston, Plaintiffs—Appellants, v. ASHLAND CHEMICAL COMPANY; Dow Chemical Company; McGean-Rohco, Inc.; Thunderbird Sales Company, Inc., Defendants—Appellees, and E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.; General Electric Company; J.W. Harris Co., Inc; Metallurgical Technologies, Inc.; Ashland Oil; Spray on Systems, Inc.; Plaze, Inc.; Royal Lubricants Company, Inc.; Stetco Inc.; Thompson & Formby, Inc.; L & F Products, Inc.; Miniwax Company, Inc.; Dow Industrial Service of the Dow Chemical Co.; Dowell Division of the Dow Chemical Co. & Brasos Oil & Gas Division of the Dow Chemical Co., Dow Industrial Service of the Dow Chemical Company; Dow Division of the Dow Chemical Company; Brazos Oil & Gas of the Dow Chemical Company; 3M Company; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corporation; Diamond Shamrock Corporation; Diamond Shamrock Corporation, aka Occidental Electro-Chemicals Inc.; Allied Corporation; Allied Signal, Inc.; Exxon Corporation; Exxon Chemical; Mobil Oil Corporation; Ameron, Inc.; Blazer East, Inc., formerly know as Koppers Company, Inc.; Saral Protective Coatings Co.; Seymour of Sycamore, Inc.; Dexter Corporation; Uni-Kem International, Inc.; Miller-Stephenson Chemical Company, Inc., formerly known as Miller-Stephenson Company of Conn, Inc.; Cabot Corporation; Borden, Inc.; Phipps Products, a Division of Dow Chemical Company; Desoto, Inc., Defendants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Third-Party-Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Third-Party-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 21, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Ikard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (E. Hart Green and Mitchell A. Toups, Weller, Green, McGown & Toups, Beaumont, Texas, and Shari A. Wright and Robert J. Binstock, Reich & Binstock, Houston, Texas, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Clyde A. Muchmore, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Kelley C. Callahan and Harvey D. Ellis Jr., Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Mort G. Welch, Welch, Jones & Smith, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TACHA and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and GREENE, District Judge.


BACKGROUND

GREENE, District J.

On November 13, 1992, plaintiffs filed this toxic tort case in state court at Beaumont, Texas. After receipt of answers to interrogatories, defendant General Electric (GE) removed the case to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Texas district court judge upheld removal jurisdiction, denied plaintiffs' motion to remand and transferred venue to the Western District of Oklahoma as a more convenient...

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