In Re United States of America, in Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation

BRIEANT, District Judge:

This multidistrict diversity litigation in the Eastern District of New York concerns claims by Vietnam War veterans and certain of their wives and children. Defendants are chemical manufacturers from which the United States (the “Government”) procured, directly or indirectly, various herbicides and defoliants (collectively for convenience “Agent Orange”). From use thereof in combat the veterans allege various injuries, including genetic damage. The wives and children allege, respectively, miscarriages and birth defects, as direct, non-derivative injuries to them…