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EX PARTE MONSANTO CO.

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794 So.2d 350 (2001)

Ex parte MONSANTO COMPANY et al. (In re Thomas G. Long, Sr. v. Monsanto Company et al. and Sabrina Abernathy et al. v. Monsanto Company et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 23, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren B. Lightfoot, Adam K. Peck, Harlan I. Prater IV, William S. Cox III, and Suzanne Alldredge of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; and Arthur F. Fite III of Merrill, Porch, Dillon & Fite, Anniston, for petitioners.

Donald W. Stewart of Stewart & Smith, P.C., Anniston; and James C. Johnston and J. Michael Druhan of Johnston, Wilkins & Druhan, L.L.P., Mobile, for respondents.

HOUSTON, Justice.1

This petition for a writ of mandamus arises out of three separate cases pending in the Calhoun Circuit Court that were consolidated during the pretrial proceedings.2 There are approximately 2,714 plaintiffs in the three cases, and each of them asserts a toxic-tort claim against Monsanto Company and other defendants (referred to collectively hereinafter as "Monsanto"). Monsanto petitions for...

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