ADAMS ET AL.

v.

UNITED STATES ET AL.

Citator

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• Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., 527 U.S. 815 (U.S. 1999)
  …bly compromise the claims of absent class members), with, e. g., In re “Agent Orange” Product Liability Litigation, 100 F. R. D. 718, 726 (EDNY 1983), aff’d 818 F. 2d 145 (CA2 1987), cert. denied sub mm. Fraticelli et al. v. Dow Chemical Co. et al., 484 U. S. 1004 (1988) (requiring only a “substantial probability — that is less than a preponderance but more than a mere possibility — that if damages are awarded, the claims of earlier litigants would exhaust the defendants’ assets”). Cf. In re Bendectin Product…
• Nell D. Autery v. United States, 992 F.2d 1523 (11th Cir. 1993)
  …e inspection procedure. “Government liability cannot logically be predicated on the failure of [employees] to go beyond what the operational plans ... required them to do.” Allen v. United States, 816 F. 2d 1417, 1421 (10th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1004, 108 S.Ct. 694, 98 L.Ed.2d 647 (1988). C. Having decided that no mandatory statute, regulation or policy controlled the development and implementation of GSMNP’s unwritten tree inspection plan, we now address whether the choices involved in such a…
• Hercules, Inc. v. United States, 516 U.S. 417 (U.S. 1996)
  …uct Liability Litigation, 565 F. Supp. 1263, 1274-1275 (EDNY 1983), with In re “Agent Orange” Product Liability Litigation, 597 F. Supp. 740, 847-850 (EDNY 1984), aff’d, 818 F. 2d 145 (CA2 1987), cert. denied sub nom. Fraticelli v. Dow Chemical Co., 484 U. S. 1004 (1988). This Court did not authoritatively uphold the “government contractor” defense until 1988, four years after the settlement here at issue. Boyle, supra. And, it did so on a ground different from that upon which the Circuit Courts had previou…