Legal Opinion
In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 11, 1998No. 97-3535PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendants in the multidistriet litigation over HIV-contaminated blood solids (see In re Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., 51 F.3d 1293 (7th Cir.1995)) ask us to issue a writ of mandamus to Judge Grady ordering him to rescind a series of orders in which he has commanded the defendants to designate no more than 24 “common-issue expert witnesses” as possible trial witnesses and has forbidden the defendants to call any other common-issue expert witnesses to' testify at trial “unless the trial judge, in his or her discretion, permits it for good cause shown.”
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- Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & LerachSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- In Re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire Litigation. Petition of the Plaintiffs' Steering CommitteeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
- In Re Air Crash Disaster.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
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- United States v. Harvey PowersCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- Melson, Adrian v. Bayer CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2007
- Philip Morris Inc. v. AngelettiCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2000
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