Connell v. Clairol, Inc.

ORDER

O’KELLEY, District Judge.

This patent infringement action is before the court on defendant’s motion to disqualify Mr. George M. Thomas, a partner in the firm of Jones, Thomas & Askew, and Mr. Thomas E. Davis, a partner in the firm of Burns, Shumaker & Davis, as attorneys for plaintiffs herein.

Defendant’s motion is predicated upon the prospective applicability of certain Disciplinary Rules of the Code of Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association as a consequence of an apparent genuine need for trial testimony from Mr. Thomas and plaintiff Gary F. Burns, a law partner of…