Legal Opinion
In Re" Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 16, 1984No. MDL 381PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 91
PRELIMINARY MEMORANDUM ON GOVERNMENT LIABILITY
WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, Vietnam war veterans and members of their families, have sued defendant chemical companies to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained as a result of exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The defendants impleaded the United States under F.R.Civ.P. 14(a), claiming that if they were liable to the plaintiffs, the United States would be liable to them for some or all of the damages they would have to pay. This court, upon motion by the United States, dismissed the third-party complaint,…
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