JELLOW v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

No. 95-CV-0506 (JBW).

895 F.Supp. 569 (1995)

Barbara Beth JELLOW, Lynn Yarnall, Kerry Ellen Zahn, Katie King Larson, Lori Beth Minor, Susan Allsopp, and Eve Marie Colello-Moltzen, Plaintiffs, v. The ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Burroughs-Wellcome & Co., Inc., Carnrick Laboratories, Inc., Chase Chemical Co., Chromally American Corporation, Dart Industries, Inc., p/k/a Rexall Drug Co., Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., Emons Industries, Inc., p/k/a Amfre Grant, Kremers-Urban Co., n/k/a Mequon Co., Lannett Co., Inc., Lincoln Laboratories, Inc., McNeilab, Inc., S.E. Massengill, a/k/a Beechum, Inc., Merck & Co., Inc., Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Inc., p/k/a Lemmon Co. of N.J., Inc., Rite-Aid Corporation, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., p/k/a William H. Rorer, Inc., Rowell Laboratories, Inc., Schering Corporation, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., p/k/a Reid-Provident Laboratories, Inc., Stanley Drug Products Inc., A Division of Sperti Drug Corporation, E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., The Upjohn Company, and West-Ward, Inc., n/k/a The Industrial Way Liquidating Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

August 16, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sybil Shainwald, Law Office of Sybil Shainwald, P.C., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Robert D. Wilson, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, for The Abbott Laboratories and McNeilab, Inc.

Catherine Mary Feehan, Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, New York City, for Burroughs-Wellcome & Co., Inc.

Lester Schwab, Lester Schwab, Katz & Dwyer, New York City, for Carnrick Laboratories, Inc. and Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Leonard F. Lesser, Schneck, Weltman, Hasmall & Mischel, L.L.P., New York City, for Chromally American Corp., and Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Inc.

A. Edward Grashof, Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, for Dart Industries Inc.

Susan Kelty Law, Beatie, King & Abate, New York City, for Eli Lilly and Co.

Eric D. Statman, Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, P.C., New York City, for Emons Industries, Inc.

Lori S. Evenchick, Cooper, Kardaras & Scharf, New York City, for Kremers-Urban Co.

John C. Maloney, Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch, Morristown, NJ, for S.E. Massengill.

Bruce D. Margolin, Law Office of Thomas J. Ludlum, R. Patrick White, New York City, for Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Robert L. Boydstun, M. Leeann Irvin, Gladstein & Isaac, New York City, for Rowell Laboratories Inc.

Bennet Susser, Marc S. Klein, Sills, Cummis, Zuckerman, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, P.A., New York City, for E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.

Richard Adam Schioppo, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York City, Frank J. Giliberti, Rivkin, Radler & Kremer, Uniondale, NY, for The Upjohn Co.

Henry R. Simon, White Plains, NY, for West-Ward, Inc.

Linda Trummer Napolitano, Law Offices of Henry R. Simon, White Plains, NY, for Schering Corp.

Robb William Patryk, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, for Merck & Co.


AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.

Defendants, formerly manufacturers of DES for use in pregnancy have moved for summary judgment on the claims of plaintiff Lynn Yarnall.

They contend that Yarnall's claims are time-barred under the New York statute of limitations. Defendants' motion is denied.

Yarnall was born in New York in 1943. She moved to Florida in 1992, where she currently resides. She filed her complaint...

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