United States Third Circuit

Approval of a nationwide settlement agreement in a class action involving diet drugs is affirmed and binds appellants where appellants had a full and fair opportunity to be heard pursuant to due process, and had already raised and litigated the challenges they appealed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/22/2005
• Decided 11/30/2005
• Published 11/30/2005

Judges

• ROTH, Circuit Judge., Before ROTH, FUENTES and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas C. Goldstein, (Argued), Goldstein & Howe, Washington, D.C., Howard I. Langer, (Argued), Langer & Grogram, Philadelphia, PA, Sylvia Davidow, Fleming & Associates, Houston, TX, Mario D'Angelo, Hariton & D'Angelo, Great River, NY, Paul J. Napoli, Denise A. Rubin, Napoli, Kaiser, Bern & Associates, Great River, NY, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. Rosenbaum, (Argued), Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Peter L. Zimroth, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, John J. Cummings, III, Cummings, Cummings & Dudenhefer, New Orleans, LA, Samuel Issacharoff, (Argued), New York University Law School, New York, NY, Michael D. Fishbein, (Argued), Fred S. Longer, Arnold Levin, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.