PLAINTIFFS' BAYCOL STEERING v. BAYER CORP.

Nos. 04-2097, 04-2187.

419 F.3d 794 (2005)

PLAINTIFFS' BAYCOL STEERING COMMITTEE, Plaintiff, Kenneth B. Moll; Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, Ltd., Appellants, v. BAYER CORPORATION; Bayer AG; GlaxoSmithKline, Defendants — Appellees. Plaintiffs' Baycol Steering Committee, Plaintiff, K. Amy Lemon, Appellant, v. Bayer Corporation; Bayer AG; GlaxoSmithKline, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 19, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Allen Lockridge, Lockridge & Grindal, Minneapolis, MN; Charles S. Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Reed, Minneapolis, MN, for plaintiff Plaintiffs' Baycol Steering Committee.

Eric John Magnuson, Peter D. Gray, Patrick D. Robben, Rider & Bennett, Minneapolis, MN; Warren Lupell, Weinberg & Richmond, Chicago, IL, Deane B. Brown, Beermann & Swerdlove, Chicago, IL, for appellants Kenneth B. Moll, Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, Ltd.

John Michael Degnan, Jesse R. Orman, Briggs & Morgan, Minneapolis, MN, for appellant K. Amy Lemon.

Peter W. Sipkins, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, MN; Susan A. Weber, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL; Gene C. Schaerr, Winston & Strawn, Washington, DC; Philip S. Beck, Adam L. Hoeflich, Bartlit & Beck, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellees Bayer Corporation, Bayer AG.

Robert A. Limbacher, Fred T. Magaziner, Dechert & Price, Philadelphia, PA; Tracy Joan Van Steenburgh, Halleland & Lewis, Minneapolis, MN, for defendants-appellees GlaxoSmithKline.

Before BYE, HEANEY, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.


BYE, Circuit Judge.

Kenneth B. Moll, and his firm Kenneth B. Moll & Associates Ltd. (KBM), and K. Amy Lemon, appeal the district court's order imposing sanctions against them for their conduct in the Baycol Multi-District Litigation (MDL). Pursuant to its inherent power, the district court removed Moll and KBM from the plaintiffs' steering committee (PSC) and imposed a $50,000 sanction against Moll after finding Moll committed perjury, violated two pretrial orders...

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