In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 381.
| Decision Date | 01 May 1980 |
| Docket Number | MDL No. 381. |
| Parties | In re "AGENT ORANGE" PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION |
| Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York |
Victor J. Yannacone, Jr., Yannacone & Yannacone, Patchogue, N. Y., Schlegel & Trafelet, Ltd., L. Steven Platt, Daniel C. Sullivan, Sullivan Associates, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Hy Mayerson, Spring City, Pa., David Jaroslawicz, New York City, Newton B. Schwartz, P. C., Benton Musslewhite, Inc., Houston, Tex., Melvin Block, Brooklyn, N. Y., Marshall A. Bernstein, Bernstein, Bernstein & Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa., Louis B. Merhige, New Orleans, La., Dorothy Thompson, Los Angeles, Cal., W. T. McMillan, W. T. McMillan & Co., Associated Counsel for Australian plaintiffs, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Jerry G. Wieslander, Frank G. Wieslander, Altoona, Iowa, Lewis A. Royal, Samuel Zelden, Des Moines, Iowa, David C. Anson, Deconcini, McDonald, Brammer, Yetwin & Lacy, Tucson, Ariz., Phillip E. Brown, Hoberg, Finger, Brown, Cox & Molliga, San Francisco, Cal., Leslie Hulnick, Wichita, Kan., Sidney W. Gilreath, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.
Leonard L. Rivkin, Rivkin, Leff & Sherman, Garden City, N. Y., Morton B. Silberman, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N. Y., Roy L. Reardon, James P. Barrett and Michael V. Corrigan, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Townley & Updike, Bud Holman and William Krohley, Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, William H. Sanders, William A. Lynch and Paul G. Lane, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo., Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Ill., John M. Fitzpatrick, Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Kauffman, Philadelphia, Pa., Joan Bernott, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.
The following orders are based on proceedings at the April 25, 1980 oral argument:
1. With the consent of all parties, the government's motion to dismiss the third-party complaints shall be deemed also to have been directed against the third party complaint of Hooker Chemical and Plastics Company served after the motion was made, and Hooker's "Memorandum of Points and Authorities" in opposition to the motion may be considered by the court.
2. All defendants, including Hooker Chemical and Plastics Company, shall have until Friday, May 2, 1980 to submit additional papers on the pending summary judgment motions, as to which decision was reserved at the April 24, 1980 argument.
3. Dow's motion for a protective order exempting from discovery its "proposed Computer Document Retrieval and Litigation Support System" is deemed to be withdrawn without prejudice. Dow may renew the motion if the parties cannot agree on a suitable arrangement for protecting the information.
4. The request by plaintiffs' counsel, Victor Yannacone, that additional...
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