United States Third Circuit

A petition for a writ of mandamus in the Multidistrict Diet Drug Product Liability Litigation seeking to direct a judicial panel to return petitioners' cases to transferor courts for further proceedings is denied where petitioners failed to show a clear and indisputable right to relief.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2005
• Decided 05/15/2006
• Published 05/15/2006

Judges

• SLOVITER, Circuit Judge., Before SLOVITER, SMITH and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sylvia Davidow, Fleming & Associates, Houston, TX, Thomas C. Goldstein (Argued), Goldstein & Howe, Washington, DC, Jonathan S. Massey (Argued), Bethesda, MD, for Petitioners Yuvonne B. Wilson, et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. Rosenbaum (Argued), Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Michael T. Scott, Paul B. Kerrigan, Milind M. Shah, Reed Smith, Philadelphia, PA, Peter L. Zimroth, Arnold & Porter, New York, NY, for Respondent Wyeth Corp. f/k/a American Home Products Corporation., Fred S. Longer, Arnold Levin, Michael D. Fishbein, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, for Respondents Plaintiffs' Management Committee and Plaintiffs' Class Counsel., Wm. Terrell Hodges, John F. Keenan, Robert L. Miller, Jr., D. Lowell Jensen, Kathryn H. Vratil, J. Frederick Motz and David R. Hansen and Harvey Bartle, III, Nominal Respondents.