Monteleone v. Gestetner Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Harold Baer, Jr., J.

Fifth-party defendants Union Carbide and Stauffer Chemical Company, and fourth-party defendants Eastman Chemical Products, Inc. and Novick Chemical Company Inc., move collectively in this negligence action for a bifurcated trial and to exclude the infant plaintiff, Gianni Monteleone, from the courtroom during the liability phase of a bifurcated trial. Defendant Gestetner Corporation cross-moves for the same relief.

Gianni Monteleone, a 10-year-old boy, was born without arms or hands and with functional, but substantially shortened legs. At the hearing in…