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IN RE WILSON

No. 05-4040.

451 F.3d 161 (2006)

In re: Yuvonne B. WILSON, et al., Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed May 15, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sylvia Davidow, Fleming & Associates, Houston, TX, Thomas C. Goldstein (Argued), Goldstein & Howe, Washington, DC, Jonathan S. Massey (Argued), Bethesda, MD, for Petitioners Yuvonne B. Wilson, et al.

Robert D. Rosenbaum (Argued), Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Michael T. Scott, Paul B. Kerrigan, Milind M. Shah, Reed Smith, Philadelphia, PA, Peter L. Zimroth, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, for Respondent Wyeth Corp. f/k/a American Home Products Corporation.

Fred S. Longer, Arnold Levin, Michael D. Fishbein, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, for Respondents Plaintiffs' Management Committee and Plaintiffs' Class Counsel.

Wm. Terrell Hodges, John F. Keenan, Robert L. Miller, Jr., D. Lowell Jensen, Kathryn H. Vratil, J. Frederick Motz and David R. Hansen and Harvey Bartle, III, Nominal Respondents.

Before SLOVITER, SMITH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

The petitioners in this mandamus proceeding, all represented by the same counsel, are several thousand of the approximately 30,000 to 35,000 plaintiffs with suits currently pending before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ("the MDL Court") as part of the Multidistrict Diet Drug Product Liability Litigation, MDL-1203. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ("JPML") transferred petitioners' cases...

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