AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC. v. ROGERS

No. 2003-IA-00237-SCT.

912 So.2d 853 (2005)

AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC.; Cross-field Products Corporation; Dana Corporation; General Electric Company; Georgia Pacific Corporation; Gulf Coast Marine Supply Company; Komp Equipment Company, Inc; Laurel Machine and Foundry Company; Marine Specialty Company, Inc.; National Service Industries, Inc.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Standard Equipment Company, Inc.; Union Carbide Corporation; Uniroyal Holding, Inc.; and Zurn Industries, Inc. v. Thomas L. ROGERS, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Hunt Cole, Jr., Walter G. Watkins, Jr., Thomas W. Tardy, III., Jackson, attorneys for appellants.

Warren Leon Conway, Gulfport, C. Kent Haney, Clarksdale, G. Patterson Keahey, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.


EASLEY, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. The case before the Court is an interlocutory appeal concerning the joinder of 76 plaintiffs and 136 named defendants in an asbestos mass tort case. Amchem Products, Inc., et al., (the Defendants) filed the petition for interlocutory appeal challenging the trial court's order denying the motion to sever and transfer or dismiss in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Bolivar County, Mississippi. The complaint...

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