Debruyne v. National Semiconductor Corp.
Opinion of the Court
We assume familiarity with the factual and procedural background of this dispute as laid out in our previous decisions. In In re Repetitive Stress Injury Litig., 11 F.3d 368 (2d Cir. 1993), we held that the district court abused its discretion by consolidating forty-four cases representing a wide range of both factual and legal contexts, and we granted mandamus relief sua sponte.
The petitioners whose actions were decon-solidated petitioned for rehearing on the grounds that our sua sponte grant of a writ of mandamus deprived the appellees and the district court of an opportunity to be heard on the issue. As we agreed that the district court should have had an opportunity to respond before our issuance of a writ of mandamus, our decision in In re Repetitive Stress Injury Litig., 35 F.3d 637 (2d Cir. 1994), solicited arguments from the district court as to whether we should reconsider our decision.
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- Marguerite DEBRUYNE Peter Debruyne Gayle Simms James Simms Madeline Bernice Strange Robin A. Palley Tonya Moore Cathy Mercantini Shirley Badon James Badon Karen Motchnik Deborah Z. Zook Thomas D. Zook Linda E. Hughes Arthur S. Hughes Lorraine Nieves Maryland Johnson Bush Carol Jamieson Carol Witzel Edward S. Witzel Eunice A. Chattman Ronald W. Chattman Pamela J. Holman Terry Adamiak Carmelita Tachad Mario Tachad Belinda Edwards Karen M. Lawrence William R. Lawrence Eleanor M. Kelly Robert M. Kelly Joann N. Richmond Adelle Martin Robert D. Martin Anna M. Burroughs Raymond Burroughs Margaret Johnson James Johnson Margaret DePaolo Elizabeth Moore Gerald R. Moore Gladys Green Amy L. Turrentine Helen Countsouros Anthony Countsouros Gregory Timmons Kathleen W. Trzeciak Jane Teabout Frances Manos Sharon Kissling Barbara Day Maria Paruolo Josephine Esposito Denise D'Allesandro Joan E. Bartek Julius Bartek Lorraine Jabkowski Victor L. Jabkowski Frances Diane Pollack Alexander Pollack Zorca S. Rada Hugo Rada Donna Scaffaro Terrence Scaffaro Dorothy Debiase Judith Shoemaker Benjamin Sotomayer Argelia Ruiz Plaintiffs-Appellees-Petitioners v. NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION Stenograph Corp. Quixote Corporation Atex, Inc. Eastman Kodak Company Globe Food Equipment Company Northern Telecom, Inc. Northern Telecom Ltd. Bell Canada Bell Northern Research Ltd. Kainsai Special USA Corp. Data Point Corporation Prime Computer Inc. System Integrators, Inc. Zenith Electronics Corp. Zenith Data Systems, Inc. Panasonic Company Flore Industries Inc. Lockheed Corporation Ontel Corporation Visual Technology Incorporated NCR Corporation Memorex Corporation Memorex Telex Corp. Apple Computer, Inc. American Telephone and Telegraph Company Apollo Computers Inc. Hewlett Packard Company Data General Corp. and as successor to Datachecker Systems, Inc., Wang Laboratories, Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation, Defendants-Appellants-Respondents KAINSAI SPECIAL USA CORP., Third-Party v. LEON LEVIN SONS, INC., Third-Party Compaq Computer Corp. Zenith Data Systems, Intervenor Martha BAYLOR v. XEROX CORPORATION, International Business Machines, Inc. and Prime Computer, Inc., Defendants Joan TANIN v. STENOGRAPH CORP., Quixote Corporation, Defendants-Appellants Verna Mae HOLLEY, Donald Holley, Dorothy Tarmel, Lucille Daniels, George Daniels, Linda G. Dimasi, Nicholas Soviero, Carol Soviero v. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, INC. NRC Corporation, Memorex Telex Corp., American Telephone and Telegraph Company, NEC America, Inc., also known as Nippon Electric N.Y., NEC Business Communications Systems, Inc., formerly known as MTI Business Communications Systems, Inc., NEC Electronics, Inc., formerly known as NEC Electronics, USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellants Audrey HULSE, Lewis R. Hulse v. APPLE COMPUTERS INC., Defendant Sony Corporation of America, Margaret CARR v. DATA GENERAL CORP.
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