MATTER OF RHONE-POULENC RORER PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

No. 97-3535.

138 F.3d 695 (1998)

In the Matter of RHONE-POULENC RORER PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Weber (submitted), Sara J. Gourley, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals and Armour Pharmaceutical.

Duncan Barr, O'Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr, San Francisco, CA, Geoffrey R.W. Smith, Washington, DC, for Bayer Corp.

Richard L. Berkman, Joseph A. O'Connor, Fred T. Magaziner, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, for Baxter Healthcare Corp.

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

David S. Shrager, Shrager, McDaid, Loftus, Flum & Spivey, Philadelphia, PA, for MDL 986 Plaintiffs.

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


POSNER, Chief Judge.

The defendants in the multidistrict litigation over HIV-contaminated blood solids (see In re Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., 51 F.3d 1293 (7th Cir.1995)) ask us to issue a writ of mandamus to Judge Grady ordering him to rescind a series of orders in which he has commanded the defendants to designate no more than 24 "common-issue expert witnesses" as possible trial witnesses and has forbidden the defendants to...

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