EX PARTE MONSANTO CO.

1011393.

862 So.2d 595 (2003)

Ex parte MONSANTO COMPANY and Solutia, Inc. (In re Sabrina Abernathy et al. v. Monsanto Company et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing May 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren B. Lightfoot, Jere F. White, Jr., Harlan I. Prater IV, Adam K. Peck, and William S. Cox of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; George P. Ford of Ford & Howard, P.C., Gadsden; and W. Stancil Starnes of Starnes & Atchison, L.L.P., Birmingham, for petitioners.

Donald W. Stewart, Anniston, for respondents.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and R. Craig Kneisel and William D. Little, asst. attys. gen.; Joseph D. Hubbard, district atty., Calhoun County, Anniston; Robert E. Owens, district atty., Shelby County, Columbiana; W. Van Davis, district atty., St. Clair County, Pell City; and Steve Giddens, district atty., Talladega County, Talladega, for the State.

Olivia H. Jenkins, gen. counsel, and James L. Wright, Alabama Department of Environmental Management.


SEE, Justice.

This petition for the writ of mandamus is the third mandamus petition to arise out of a toxic-tort case pending against Monsanto Company, Pharmacia Corporation,1 and Solutia, Inc.2 (hereinafter referred to collectively as "Monsanto"), in the Etowah Circuit Court. Monsanto asks this Court to direct the trial judge, Joel Laird, to recuse himself from this case because, it argues, Judge Laird's conduct...

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