The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday rejected an attempt by three parties in the World Trade Center respiratory damage litigation to disqualify court-appointed amicus Cravath Swaine & Moore.
New York City, its contractors who worked at Ground Zero, and the insurance company set up to compensate first responders and cleanup workers, moved for Cravath’s disqualification because two of its associates who worked on the amicus had been law clerks for Judge Alvin Hellerstein (See Profile) and assisted him in the litigation.
