LINDA FERRIGNO, A/K/A LINDA FERRIGNO MANNIX, MARILYN FERRIGNO, MICHAEL MANNIX, LINDA C. PIPON, LOUIS PIPON, ADRIANE WEINBERG, FRANCES WEINBERG, MARY ANNE DUFFY, PHYLLIS M. DUFFY, CYNTHIA LEVY, HARRIET LEVY, FERRIS OLIN, A/K/A FERRIS OLIN LEON, NAOMI OLIN, MITCHELL A. LEON, JOANNE WILLNER NEGER, ESTELLE WILLNER ROSENSWEIG, IRVING NEGER, ELLEN STEINER, MARTHA STEINER, KARIN JOY NOTO AND GLORIA NOTO, EACH ON THEIR OWN BEHALF, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF A CLASS, PLAINTIFFS,
v.
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY; E.R. SQUIBB & SONS, INC.; ABBOTT LABORATORIES; EMONS INDUSTRIES, INC.; BOYLE & COMPANY PHARMACEUTICALS; CARNRICK LABORATORIES, DIVISION OF G.W. CARNRICK CO.; MERCK SHARP & DOHME; REXALL DRUG COMPANY; WILLIAM H. RORER, INC.; SCHERING CORPORATION; THE UPJOHN COMPANY; WINTHROP LABORATORIES, DIVISION OF STERLING DRUG CO., INC.; COLE PHARMACAL COMPANY INC.; AMFREGRANT, INC., A SUBSIDIARY OF ORMONT DRUG & CHEMICAL CO.; ARMOUR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY; AYERST LABORATORIES; BREON LABORATORIES; CHARLES E. FROSST & CO.; WYETH LABORATORIES, DIVISION OF AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION; PREMO PHARMACEUTICAL LABS; CHEMETRON CORPORATION; R.W. GREEF & CO., INC.; A.B.C., INC., D.E.F. INC., ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Hudson County.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Decided July 2, 1980.
Decided July 2, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Myron W. Kronisch for plaintiffs (Kronisch & Schkeeper, attorneys).
John L. McGoldrick for defendant Eli Lilly and Company (McCarter & English, attorneys).
Barry Epstein for defendant Squibb & Sons, Inc. (Sills, Beck, Cummis, Radin & Tischman, attorneys).
William B. McGuire for defendant Abbott Laboratories (Lum, Biunno & Tompkins, attorneys).
Robert J. McCoid for defendant Emons Industries, Inc., and Amfre-Grant, Inc. (Budd, Larner, Kent, Gross, Picillo & Rosenbaum, attorneys).
Richard J. Doyle for defendant Boyle & Company Pharmaceuticals (Shaljian, Cammarata & O'Connor, attorneys).
Walter E. Monaghan for defendant Carnrick Laboratories, Division of G.W. Carnrick Co., and Cole Pharmacal Company Inc. (Haggerty & Donohue, attorneys).
Thomas F. Campion for defendant Merck Sharp & Dohme (Shanley & Fisher, attorneys).
John P. McGee for defendant Rexall Drug Company (McDermott & McGee, attorneys).
Edmond R. Casey for defendant William H. Rorer, Inc. (O'Donnell, McCord & Leslie, attorneys).
Roger L. Toner for defendant Schering Corporation (Kuttner & Toner, attorneys).
Edwin A. Hartung for defendant The Upjohn Company (Lamb, Hutchinson, Chappell, Ryan & Hartung, attorneys).
Eugene M. Purcell for defendant Winthrop Laboratories, Division of Sterling Drug Co., Inc. (Purcell, Ries & Shannon, attorneys).
James L. Melhuish for defendant Armour Pharmaceutical Company (Morgan, Melhuish, Monaghan, McCoid & Spielvogel, attorneys).
Anita Hotchkiss, for defendant Ayerst Laboratories and Wyeth Laboratories, Division of American Home Products Corporation (Porzio & Bromberg, attorneys).
David L. Menzel for defendant Premo Pharmaceutical Labs (Stryker, Tams & Dill, attorneys).
Peter R. Feehan for defendant Chemetron Corporation (Feehan & Feehan, attorneys).
Johnathan Kohn for defendant R.W. Greef & Co., Inc. (Rothbard & Kohn, attorneys).
Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Hudson County.
CASTANO, J.S.C.
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