Legal Opinion
Anne Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc., Anne Anderson v. Beatrice Foods Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 22, 1988No. 87-1405, 88-1070PublishedCited by 254 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Although we disagree with appellants’ characterization of the matter before us as a watershed in the law of toxic torts, 1 we find these consolidated appeals to raise perplexing questions — some of novel impression — concerning the scope and operation of certain of the Civil Rules. An exposition of the questions squarely presented, and of our answers to them, follows.
I. THE UNDERLYING LITIGATION
We eschew an exigetic presentation of the litigation’s history, secure in the knowledge that the reader with a thirst for further detail may appropriately consult two published…
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