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ENRIGHT v. LILLY & CO.

77 N.Y.2d 377 (1991)

Karen Enright, an Infant, by Patricia Enright, Her Parent and Natural Guardian, et al., Respondents, v. Eli Lilly & Company et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. McGoldrick, Russel H. Beatie, Jr., Charna L. Gerstenhaber and Charles Jefferson Biederman for Eli Lilly & Company, appellant.

Alexander C. Cordes, Paul K. Stecker, Tamar P. Halpern, David J. Fleming, Marc S. Klein, Karl E. Seib, Jr., Robert D. Wilson, Jr., A. Edward Grashof, Sheila Moeller Fessler, David M. Covey and Jack Gross for E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., and others, appellants.

Theodore V. H. Mayer, W. Burlette Carter, John J. Dee and Jonathan B. Fellows for Merck & Co., Inc., appellant.

Leonard L. Finz, Steven DiJoseph and Stuart L. Finz for respondent.

Arthur H. Bryana, Priscilla Budeiri, Isabel Marcus and Lucinda M. Finley for Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, amicus curiae.

Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur with Chief Judge WACHTLER; Judge HANCOCK, JR., dissents in part and votes to affirm in a separate opinion; Judge BELLACOSA taking no part.

Chief Judge WACHTLER.

The question in this case is whether the liability of manufacturers of the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) should extend to a so-called "third generation" plaintiff, the granddaughter of a woman who ingested the drug. According to the allegations of the complaint, the infant plaintiff's injuries were caused by her premature birth, which in turn resulted from damage to her mother's reproductive...

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