THOMAS v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Civ. A.No. 99-451.

137 F.Supp.2d 575 (2001)

Eric V. THOMAS, D.M.D., individually, as Administrator, and Administrator ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Tracy Rose Thomas, and as parent and natural guardian of Alix Thomas, Plaintiff, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and TRW, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

April 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Pickering, Jr., South Seaville, NJ, Thomas E. Mellon, Jr., Elliot Alan Kolodny, Mellon, Webster & Mellon, Doylestown, PA, Carl D. Poplar, Poplar & Eastlack, Turnersville, NJ, for Plaintiff.

William J. Conroy, Cabaniss, Conroy & McDonald, LLP, Turnersville, NJ, Floyd Abrams, Susan Buckley, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, Glenn Alan Zeitz, Haddonfield, NJ, for Ford Motor Company.

Robert J. Hafner, Lavin, Coleman, O'Neil, Ricci, Finarelli & Gray, Mount Laurel, NJ, for TRW, Inc.


OPINION

ORLOFSKY, District Judge.

In this hotly contested products liability case, the parties have appealed and cross-appealed from a decision of United States Magistrate Judge Joel B. Rosen which requires this Court to examine the scope of New Jersey's so-called "litigation privilege" and the reach of the first clause of 42 U.S.C. § 1985(2), a post Civil War civil rights statute, which prohibits conspiracies to intimidate or retaliate against parties...

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