United States Ninth Circuit

Disparity in state negligence and products liability law and existence of multiple causes of potential injury in putative class are too great to justify nationwide class action against pacemaker manufacturer.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/30/2000
• Decided 06/15/2001
• Published 06/15/2001

Judges

• Before:  B. FLETCHER, O'SCANNLAIN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth J. Cabraser,James M. Finberg (argued), Melanie M. Piech, and Scott P. Nealey, Leiff, Cabraser, Hiemann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, California;  C. Brooks Cutter, Friedman, Callard, Cutter & Panneton, Sacramento, California;  Robert Hollingsworth, Cors & Bassett, Cincinnati, Ohio, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles F. Preuss, Thomas J. Pulliam, Jr., and Catherine M. Leon, Preuss Shanagher Zvoleff & Zimmer LLP, San Francisco, California;  Charles P. Goodell, Jr. (argued), Richard M. Barnes, and Ian Gallacher, Goodell, Devries, Leech & Gray, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland;  John M. LaPlante, Gregory J. Fisher, Edson & LaPlante, Sacramento, California;  Patrick S. Coffey, Scott J. Fisher (argued), Gardner, Carton & Douglass, Chicago, Illinois;  Robert S. Epstein, Epstein, Englert, Staley & Coffey, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees.