STATE EX REL. MOBIL CORP. v. GAUGHAN

No. 30314.

563 S.E.2d 419 (2002)

211 W.Va. 106

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. MOBIL CORPORATION; CCX, Inc.; Dravo Corporation; Great Lakes Carbon Corporation; Green Tweed & Company, Inc.; Limbach, Inc.; Pittsburgh Metals Purifying Company; Plibrico Company; Robertson CECO Corporation; Seegott, Inc.; Zurn Industries; General Electric Company; Monsanto Company, NKA Pharmacia Corporation; Combustion Engineering, Inc.; Certain Defendants and Certain Premises and Employer Defendants; Ford Motor Company; Daimler Chrysler Corporation; and General Motors Corporation, Petitioners, v. Honorable Martin J. GAUGHAN, in His Capacity as a Judge/Special Appointee of the West Virginia Mass Litigation Panel; and All Plaintiffs in the Case Styled in re: Asbestos Litigation, Civil Action No. 01-C-9000, Kanawha County, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

April 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen B. Farmer, G. Kenneth Robertson, Farmer, Cline & Arnold, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for the Petitioner, Mobil Corporation.

R. Scott Long, Stephen M. Schwartz, Hendrickson & Long, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for the Petitioners, CCX, Inc.; Dravo Corporation; Green Tweed & Company, Inc.; Limbach, Inc.; Pittsburgh Metals Purifying Company; Plibrico Company; Robertson Ceco Corporation; Seegott, Inc.; and Zurn Industries.

Nora Berry Fisher, Michael A. Cohen, Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Attorneys for the Petitioner, General Electric Company.

Charles M. Love, III, Phyllis M. Potterfield, Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for the Petitioner, Monsanto Company, nka, Pharmacia Corporation.

Kathy K. Condo, Reed Smith, LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Attorney for the Petitioner, Combustion Engineering, Inc.

J. Tyler Dinsmore, Joseph M. Sellaro, Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for the Petitioners, Ford Motor Company and Daimler Chrysler Corporation.

John R. McGhee, Jr., Kay, Casto & Chaney, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorney for the Petitioner, General Motors Corporation.

Michael B. Victorson, Dennis C. Sauter, Eric M. James, Paula L. Durst, Spilman, Thomas & Battle, David K. Hendrickson, R. Scott Long, Hendrickson & Long, Joseph S. Beeson, Robinson & McElwee, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for Certain Defendants/Premise Defendants.

Ronald L. Motley (Pro Hac Vice), Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, R. Dean Hartley, James M. O'Brien, Leslie Crosco, Hartley, O'Brien, Parsons, Thompson & Hill, Wheeling, West Virginia, John Sutter, Robert Miller, The Sutter Law Firm, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia, Harvey Peyton, Peyton, Parenti & Whittington, Nitro, West Virginia, James F. Humphreys, J. David Cecil, James Humphreys & Associates, Stuart Calwell, John Skaggs, Law Office of Stuart Calwell, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia, Bruce E. Mattock, Theodore Goldbert, Goldbert, Persky, Jennings & White, Pittsburgh, PA, John Cooper, Cooper & Preston, Parsons, West Virginia, James M. Barber, William K. Schwartz, Harvit & Schwartz, Scott S. Segal, Segal Law Firm, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for Plaintiffs in Asbestos Litigation.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner Mobil Corporation1 seeks extraordinary relief from a February 26, 2002, Trial Scheduling Order2 entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County in connection with certain asbestos-based personal injury cases that have been amassed under West Virginia Trial Court Rule ("TCR") 26.01. Mobil argues that the procedures contemplated by the lower court...

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