IN RE HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION LITIGATION

Nos. 05-35648, 05-35651, 05-35678, 05-35866, 05-35892, 05-35895, 06-35165.

497 F.3d 1005 (2007)

In re HANFORD NUCLEAR RESERVATION LITIGATION, Barbara Jean Phillips, Plaintiff, and Wanda Buckner; Shirley Carlisle, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware corporation; General Electric Co., a New York corporation; UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees. In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, Barbara Jean Phillips, Plaintiff, and Gloria Hope; Clara Reiss; Glenda Winslow; Kathryn J. Goldbloom, aka Kathryn Janelle Goldbloom, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware corporation; General Electric Co., a New York corporation; UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants-Appellees. In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, Barbara Jean Phillips, Plaintiff, and Gloria Hope; Clara Reiss; Glenda Winslow; Wanda Buckner; Kathryn J. Vancampen, aka Kathryn Janelle Goldbloom; Shirley Carlisle, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware corporation; General Electric Co., a New York corporation, Defendants-Appellants, and UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendant. Barbara Jean Phillips, Plaintiff, v. Steven Stanton; Gloria Wise, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co.; General Electric Co., Defendants-Appellants. Pamela Durfey; Paulene Echo Hawk; Dorothy George, on their own behalf and on behalf of a own behalf and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware Corporation; General Electric Co., a New York Corporation, UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Atlantic Richfield-Hanford Co., a Washington Corporation; Rockwell International Corp., a Delaware Corporation; Westinghouse Hanford Corp., a Delaware Corporation; Westinghouse Electric Corp., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, Pamela Durfey; Pauline Echo Hawk; Dorothy George, on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of similarly situated persons, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware corporation; General Electric Co., a New York corporation; UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Atlantic Richfield Company; Atlantic Richfield-Hanford Co., a Washington corporation; Rockwell International Corp., a Delaware corporation; Westinghouse Hanford Corporation, a Delaware corporation; Westinghouse Electric Corp., a Pennsylvania corporation, Defendants-Appellees. In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, Shannon C. Rhodes, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., a Delaware corporation; General Electric Co., a New York corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 14, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Nordberg, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Roy S. Haber, Roy S. Haber, P.C., Eugene, OR; Daniel Johnson and David Breskin, Short Cressman & Burgess, PLLC, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants-appellees.

Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees-appellants.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge, ALFRED T. GOODWIN and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge:

I. Introduction.

The origins of this case trace back more than sixty years to the height of World War II when the federal government solicited Appellants E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., General Electric, Inc., UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., Atlantic Richfield Co., and Rockwell International Corp., (collectively "Defendants") to operate the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Reservation ("Hanford") in southeastern...

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