In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION.
J. Michael Twinam, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Robert S. Bauer and Sandra J. Bauer, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Sheryl A. Walker, Eric C. Walker, A Minor, By his Mother and Next Friend on behalf of Sheryl A. Walker, Stephen J. Walker, William Hamilton And Esther M. Hamilton, His Wife, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees,
Does 1-100, Defendants.
Sherman Clinton Stearns and Dortha Monyene Stearns, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Wilmer Plowden Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Charles T. Anderson, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees,
Pfizer, Inc., et. al., Defendants.
Linda Faye Clostio-Breaux, Racheal. M. Breaux, Joey M. Breaux, April R. Breaux, Stacy M. Breaux, Eric J. Breaux, and Scott M. Breaux, Plaintiffs,
Charles J. Breaux, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Thomas G. Gallagher, Plaintiff-Appellant,
Dow Chemical Co. and Occidental Chemical Corp., Defendants-Appellees.
Daniel Raymond Stephenson, Susan Stephenson, Daniel Anthony Stephenson And Emily Elizabeth Stephenson, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Casey J. Sampey, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Christine Nelson, Individually and on behalf of her deceased husband, Franklin Nelson, Reginald Williams, Karen Holland, Franklin Nelson Jr. and Shalisa Nelson, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Henry C. Kidd and Shirleane J. Kidd, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
v.
WIllie Williams Jr., and Rita Williams, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al.,
Joe Isaacson And Phyllis Lisa Isaacson, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Vickey S. Garncarz, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Jack Richard Patton, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Dow Chemical Co., et al., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: June 18, 2007.
Final Submission: August 3, 2007.
Decided: February 22, 2008.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James Boanerges, Cooper, Sprague, Jackson & Boanerges, P.C., Houston, TX; Mark I. Bronson, Newman, Bronson & Wallis, St. Louis, Missouri; Gerson H. Smoger, Smoger & Associates, Oakland, CA; Mark R. Cuker, Williams Cuker Betezofsky, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Christopher E. Buckey, Shanley, Sweeney, Reilly, & Allen, P.C., Albany, NY; David E. Cherry, Campbell, Cherry, Harrison, Davis & Dove, P.C., Waco, TX; John H. Pucheu, Pucheu, Pucheu & Robertson, L.L.P., Eunice, LA; Bernard F. Duhon, Abbeville, LA; Robert B. Evans, III, Burgos, Evans & Wilson LLC, Metairie, LA; Nira T. Kersmich, Rochester, NY; Jeffrey D. Guerriero, Guerriero & Guerriero, Monroe, LA; Morris E. Cohen, Brooklyn, NY; James Russell Tucker, Dallas, TX (on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Andrew L. Frey, Charles A. Rothfeld (Lauren R. Goldman, Christopher J. Houpt, of counsel), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.
John C. Sabetta, Andrew T. Hahn, Sr., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York, NY; Seth P. Waxman, Paul R.Q. Wolfson, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, Washington, DC; Richard P. Bress, Latham & Watkins, Washington, DC; Michael M. Gordon, King & Spaulding LLP, New York, NY; William A. Krohley, William C. Heck, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY; James L. Stengel, Laurie Strauch Weiss, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY; Steven Brock, Jatnes V. Aiosa, Richard S. Feldman, Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale, NY; Lawrence D'Aloise, Jr., Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, NY; Myron Kalish, New York, N.Y. (on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.
William A. Rossbach (Timothy M. Bechtel, of counsel), Rossbach, Hart, Bechtel, P.C., Missoula, MT; P.B. Onderdonk, Jr., National Judge Advocate, The American Legion, Indianapolis, IN, for Amicus Curiae Veterans and Military Service Organizations.
Ian Heath Gershengorn (Lise T. Spacapan and Fazal R. Khan, on the brief), Jenner & Block LLP, Washington DC, for Amicus Curiae American Chemistry Council and Chlorine Chemistry Council.
Raphael Metzger, Metzger Law Group, Long Beach, CA, for Amicus Curiae Drs. Brian G. Durie, Devra Davis, Peter L. deFur, Alan Lockwood, David Ozonoff, Arnold J. Schecter, David Wallinga, Carl F. Cranor, The Council for Education and Research on Toxic, and the Lymphoma Foundation of America.
Before: MINER, SACK, and HALL, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
SACK, Circuit Judge:
More than thirty-five years ago, the United States military stopped using Agent Orange and related chemicals as defoliants to prosecute the war in Vietnam. This appeal is but the latest chapter in a thirty-year struggle by the litigants, their counsel, and judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and of this Court to bring to just legal closure the alleged consequences...
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