Monica Valentino v. Carter-Wallace, Inc.

97 F.3d 1227 65 USLW 2234 , 35 Fed.R.Serv.3d 731 , 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 7430 Monica VALENTINO; Michael A. Hackard; Hugo S. Jennings; Wanda S. O'Connor, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CARTER-WALLACE, INC.; Wallace Laboratories, a division of Carter-Wallace, Inc., Defendants-Appellants. No. 95-15935. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 8, 1996. Decided Oct. 7, 1996. Stephen R. Lang, Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, New York City, for defendants-appellants. Elizabeth J. Cabraser and William B. Hirsch, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, California; Arthur Sherman, Sherman, Dan & Portugal, Beverly Hills, California, for plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Eugene F. Lynch, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-94-02867-EFL. Before: SCHROEDER and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and REED, * District Judge. SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge: 1 This is an interlocutory appeal from a district court order under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23 conditionally certifying a nationwide plaintiff class and subclass in a products liability…