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ARGUED: Christina Guerola Sarchio, DECHERT LLP, Washington, D.C., for
Appellants. Melissa L. Yeates, KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK, LLP, Radnor,
Pennsylvania, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Douglas W. Dunham, Bert L. Wolff, DECHERT
LLP, New York, New York; Theodore I. Brenner, Alexander S. de Witt, FREEBORN &
PETERS LLP, Richmond, Virginia; Joseph A. Cancila, Jr., James P. Gaughan, RILEY
SAFER HOLMES & CANCILA LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellants. Joseph H.
Meltzer, Tyler S. Graden, Jordan Jacobson, KESSLER TOPAZ MELTZER & CHECK,
LLP, Radnor, Pennsylvania; William H. Monroe, Jr., Marc C. Greco, Kip A. Harbison,
Michael A. Glasser, GLASSER AND GLASSER, P.L.C., Norfolk, Virginia; James E.
Cecchi, Lindsey H. Taylor, Donald A. Ecklund, Zachary A. Jacobs, CARELLA, BYRNE,
CECCHI, OLSTEIN, BRODY & AGNELLO, P.C., Roseland, New Jersey, for Appellee.
Wystan M. Ackerman, ROBINSON & COLE LLP, Hartford, Connecticut, for Amici
American Property Casualty Insurance Association and National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies. H. Sherman Joyce, Lauren Sheets Jarrell, AMERICAN TORT
REFORM ASSOCIATION, Washington, D.C.; Steven P. Lehotsky, Scott A. Keller,
Jeremy Evan Maltz, Washington, D.C., Katherine C. Yarger, LEHOTSKY KELLER LLP,
Denver, Colorado, for Amicus American Tort Reform Association.