Superior Court of Delaware

In asbestos litigation involving automotive friction products such as brakes and clutches, an application by Daimler Chrysler Corporation for certification of an interlocutory appeal is denied where the challenged order at issue, involving a determination as to the reliability of certain plaintiffs' experts' opinions, did not establish a "legal right" for purposes of Supreme Court Rule 42(a).

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

Court

• Superior Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ian Connor Bifferato, Bifferato, Gentilotti, Biden & Balick, Wilmington, DE, Thomas C. Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, Wilmington, DE, Christopher J. Panatier, and John J. Spillane, Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, TX, William A. Kohlburn, and Michael J. Angelides, Simmons Cooper, LLC, East Alton, IL, Cameron R. Waddell, Leblanc & Waddell, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for plaintiffs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Somers S. Price, Jr. and James M. Kron, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, Samuel L. Tarry, Jr., McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, for Defendant DaimlerChrysler Corporation., Paul A. Bradley, McCarter & English, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, Steven T. Johnson, Pepple, Johnson, Cantu & Schmidt, P.L.C., Seattle, WA, for Defendant Owens-Illinois, Inc.