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O'CONNOR v. BOEING NORTH AMERICAN, INC.

No. 00-56141.

311 F.3d 1139 (2002)

Lawrence O'CONNOR; Margaret O'Connor; Kathy Hecker; Mary Jane Vroman; Nicky Pelaez, On Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated; Laverne F. Barina, Mary Hillerstein; Sharon Grandinetti; Donald Reed; Terri Aungst; Ruby Diamond; Marjorie Extract; Heather Hultgren; Patricia Lev; Jody Smith; Maralyn Soifer; The Estate of Marjorie Taaffe; The Estate of Robin Lynn Trench; Cheryl Wernke; Carol Wolfsen; Stephanie Zakarian; Harold Samuels; Joyce Samuels; Carlene Getter; Estate of Bernard Hudson; Estate of Eugene D. Mauck, Plaintiffs, and Mary Christine Crilley, Carmela Anzilotti; Faith Arnold; Lila Arnold; Linda Blaustein; Howard Bleecker; Melissa Bolster; Ashle Bryant; Jennifer Cady; Heather Cass; Briana Alys Chappell; Mark Leslie Davis; Madeline Felkins; Robert Grandinetti; Norman Gross; Susan Hemming; Julie King; Margaret Kirby; Joy E. Lee; Helen Pasquini; Laurel Ann Peyton; Rosemary Pitts; Emanuel Rubin; William Rueger; Pauline Sablow; Hariet Spero; Donna Stone; Jerry Stone; Mildred Strausburg; Miles Teicher; Jacqueline Teicher; Ralph Tremonti; Victor Wollman; Estate of Edward J. Barina; Kathleen Brucato; Gerald Creinin; Roy Fischman; Grace Highfield; Miriam Hintz; Estate of Jason E. Hudlett; Joan Mann; Shirley Orban; Marion Rosen; Denise Seth-Hunter; Randall Trench; Don Varley; Helen White; The Estate of Marrilee Fay Reed; The Estate of Archibald P. Cameron; The Estate of Hai-Chou Chu; The Estate of Ralph Tremonti, Sr.; The Estate of Paula Jean Trevino, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BOEING NORTH AMERICAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Rockwell International Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 27, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Barry Cappello, Cappello & McCann LLP, Santa Barbara, CA; Tina B. Nieves, Hector G. Gancedo, Gancedo & Nieves, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

William W. Schofield, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: O'SCANNLAIN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

Opinion by Judge PAEZ; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge O'SCANNLAIN.

PAEZ, Circuit Judge.

In 1997, Plaintiffs filed this action against Boeing North America, Inc. and Rockwell International Corporation ("Defendants"), alleging that hazardous radioactive and non-radioactive substances released from four nuclear and rocket testing facilities (the "Rocketdyne facilities") caused their latent illnesses. The district court granted summary judgment...

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