sentences:  The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit referred to the consolidated lawsuit as a "litigatory monster".Raymond L. Acosta, assigned as trial judge for the claims, divided the trial into phases, for which representative plaintiffs were selected.The first phase, against the so-called DuPont-family defendants, who included the corporation that owned the hotel and some 40 limited partnerships, corporations, and individuals who the plaintiffs claimed controlled the hotel, went to trial on March 15, 1989.