IN RE AGENT ORANGE PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard L. Rivkin, Garden City, N.Y. (Leslie R. Bennett, Barbara Petraglia Aloe, Rivkin, Radler, Dunne & Bayh, Garden City, N.Y., Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Kelley Drye & Warren, Townley & Updike, New York City, Clark, Gagliardi & Miller, White Plains, N.Y., Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade, Short Hills, N.J., Shea & Gould, New York City, of counsel) for defendants-appellants Dow Chemical Co., Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Co., Hercules Inc., Monsanto Co., T H Agriculture & Nutrition Co., Thompson Chemicals Corp. and Uniroyal, Inc.

Cornish F. Hitchcock, Washington, D.C. (Alan B. Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., John Catterson, Mark A. Harmon, Peter Sills, Bondy & Schloss, New York City, Barton F. Stichman, Vietnam Veterans of America Legal Services, Washington, D.C., of counsel) for intervenor-appellee Vietnam Veterans of America.

Robert Taylor, Portland, Me. (Harold L. Lichten, Barry A. Margolin, Jennifer Wriggins, Tureen & Margolin, Portland, Me., of counsel) for plaintiff-appellee Robert Grenier.

Ralph G. Elliot, Hartford, Conn., Jane E. Kirtley, Robert S. Becker, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, D.C., Richard N. Winfield, Rogers & Wells, New York City, Henry L. Baumann, Steven A. Bookshester, David Barr, Barr & Teer, Washington, D.C., Katharine P. Darrow, Kenneth A. Richieri, New York City, J. Laurent Scharff, Pierson, Ball & Dowd, Bruce W. Sanford, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, D.C., of counsel, for amici curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Associated Press, Associated Press Managing Editors, National Ass'n of Broadcasters, Newspaper Guild, New York Times Co., Radio-Television News Directors Ass'n and Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, in support of appellee Vietnam Veterans of America.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, KEARSE and MINER, Circuit Judges.