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IN RE PREMPRO PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

Nos. 09-1205, 09-1250, 09-1373.

591 F.3d 613 (2010)

In re PREMPRO PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION, Sandra Kirkland; Patricia Lawton-Wilson; Monica Lee; Katherine Maiello; Dorothy Mallette; Nola McAdoo; Lillian Meeks; Brenda Nicholson; Joanne Nickel; Barbara Norvell; Reva Orr; Regina Parker; April Patterson; Kathleen Perkinson; Donna Peters; Joanne Peterson; Mary Phillips; Viola Plieseis; Joyce Podhayski; Kathleen Preston; Lydia Ross; Diane Simon; Ruth Sitzmann; Mary Sorenson; Flora Spencer; Sue Standriff; Patricia Stone; Tena Valentine; Diana Walters; Marion Walters; Judy Wegenast; Charlene Weinmann; Helen Whaley; Marilyn Will; Francine Wixen; Joyce Wood, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Joyce Yonushewski, Plaintiff, Phyllis Goode; Carol Haney; Patricia Kruse; Sally Laufketter; Ann Moran; Judith Petersen; Patricia Rogers; Jewell Tolkin; Donna Wheeler; Charlene McComas; Muriel Pitsinger; Ruby Robbins; Mary Steele; Donna Taube; Joyce Waugh; Alba Cordon; Bertha Watcher; Joan Thompson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Nancy States; Anna Soloman, Plaintiffs, v. Wyeth, and its divisions; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; ESI Lederle; Pfizer, Inc.; Pharmacia & Upjohn Company; Pharmacia Corporation; Barr Laboratories, Inc.; Mead Johnson & Company; Solvay Pharmaceuticals; Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Watson Laboratories, Inc.; Greenstone Ltd.; Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees. In re Prempro Products Liability Litigation, Rick Jasperson, as Trustee for Next-of-Kin Decedents Gail Gilliam, Marcia Kunkel, Elizabeth Roszak, Mary Solis, Bea Zissel a/k/a Phyllis Bea Zissel, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Wyeth, and its divisions; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; ESI Lederle; Pfizer, Inc.; Pharmacia & Upjohn Company; Pharmacia Corporation; Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees. Dorothy Allen; Judith Allen; Loretta Andrews; Janet Arbogast; Karen Awald; Carol Bannerman; Phyllis Barnes; Joanne Barrett; Joanne Black; Mary Bowden; Hazel Burgess; Joyce Burpee; Virginia Campbell; Adrianne Carrera; Lois Carter; Margaret Chamness; Mary Chrisco; Peggy Clemons; Sally Collins; Barbara Couch; Mary Dawson; Lois Duffy; Linda Eells; Frances Farr; Marjorie Flaman; Margaret Foltz; Wanda Foltz; Delois Foster; Jo Garrison O'Neil; Sharon Haemker; Margaret Harris; Louise Hess; Wanda Hinceman; Alice Holtzman; Rita Hren; Nancy Hunter; Yvonne Hutchinson; Glenda Ivey; Doris Jerome; Grace Kiger; Patsy Anderson; Juanita Brouwer; Nata Cargan; Nancy Jo Carter; Jan Costa Rydjeske; Wilma Cowart; Patricia Fernau; Isabel Fragoso; Doris Gist; Helen Penny Aros, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Patricia Brunner, Plaintiff, Joan Casto; Marian Conner; Janet Edwards; Wilma Faulkner; Nancy Katte; Nan Maury; Betty Bethea, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Rachel Epstein; Marguerite Hjalmarson, Plaintiffs, v. Wyeth, and its divisions; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; ESI Lederle; Pfizer, Inc.; Pharmacia & Upjohn Company; Pharmacia Corporation; Barr Laboratories, Inc.; Mead Johnson & Company; Greenstone Ltd.; Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: January 6, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Nebrida Buchanan, argued, San Diego, CA, Howard B. Miller, Joseph C. Gjonala, on the brief, Los Angeles, CA, for appellant.

William Hoffman, argued, Washington, DC, Michael Anthony Lindsay, Linda Susan Svitak, John Philip Borger, James Anderson O'Neal, Bridget Maria Ahmann, Carrie L. Hund, Amy R. Freestone, Minneapolis, MN, Stephen Louis Urbanczyk, Grant Andrew Geyerman, John W. Vardaman, Frank Lane Heard, III, William Hoffman, Washington, DC, Joseph Paul Thomas, Linda E. Maichl, Keny Carson Green, Cincinnati, OH, Steven J. Glickstein, Alan Rothman, New York, NY, G. Dawn Shawger, Alan R. Vickery, Dallas, TX, on the brief, for appellee.

Before MURPHY, BRIGHT and RILEY, Circuit Judges.

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, women and next-of-kin of deceased women, sued a number of manufacturers of hormone replacement therapy drugs, asserting the drugs caused breast cancer. The defendants, manufacturers of hormone replacement therapy drugs ("manufacturers"), removed the cases to federal court. The plaintiffs moved to remand to state court on the grounds that complete diversity of citizenship was lacking, thereby depriving the court of subject matter...

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