BERRY v. PHARMACIA CORP.

No. CIV.A.3.04 CV 134LN.

316 B.R. 883 (2004)

M.L. BERRY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHARMACIA CORPORATION f/k/a Monsanto Chemical Company, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Koerber, Roger K. Doolittle, Doolittle and Doolittle, Thomas R. Frazier, II, Frazier & Davidson, P.A., Jackson, MS, Felix Lee Bowie, III, Davidson, Bowie & Sims, PLLC, Flowood, MS, Mary E. McAlister, Douglas G. Mercier, David Nutt & Associates, Ridgeland, MS, Harold J. Barkley, Jr., Jackson, MS, F. Gerald Maples, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs.

Thomas W. Tyner, Daphne M. Lancaster, Aultman, Tyner, Ruffin & Yarborough, Ltd., Hattiesburg, MS, Jane E, Tucker, E. Clifton Hodge, Jr., James W. Craig, Tana Nicole Vollendorf, Phelps Dunbar, Katherine K. Smith, Watkins & Eager, David A. Baker, Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, Jackson, MS, Robert 0. Allen, Allen, Allen, Breeland & Allen, PLLC, Brookhaven, MS, Trudy D. Fisher, John Alexander Brunini, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS, John Max Edwards, Jr., Phelps Dunbar, Tupelo, MS, Robert W. Wilkinson, Dogan & Wilkinson, PLLC, Pascagoula, MS, Michael N. Watts, Mark R. Smith, Holcomb Dunbar, P.A., Oxford, MS, Thomas E. Vaughn, Allen, Vaughn, Cobb & Hood, Gulfport, MS, David A. Barfield, Barfield & Associates, Jackson, MS, Karl R. Steinberger, Williams, Heidelberg, Steinberger & McElhaney, PA, Pascagoula, MS, James P. Streetman, III, Scott, Sullivan, Streetman & Fox, PC, Walker W. Jones, III, James L. Jones, Scott W. Pedigo, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Jackson, MS, Charles Michael Evert, Jr., Rose Marie Wade, Evert & Weathersby, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TOM S. LEE, District Judge.

This cause is before the court on plaintiffs' motion for mandatory abstention or, in the alternative, for remand. Defendant Pharmacia Corporation f/k/a Monsanto Chemical Company has responded in opposition to the motion and the court, having considered the memoranda of authorities submitted by the parties, concludes that the motion should be denied.

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