BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB v. SUPERIOR CT. OF CA

No. 16-466.

137 S.Ct. 1773 (2017)

582 U.S. 255

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, Petitioner v. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 19, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal Katyal , Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Rachel P. Kovner , for the United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioner.

Thomas C. Goldstein , Bethesda, MD, for Respondents.

Anand Agneshwar , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY, Daniel S. Pariser , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC, Neal Kumar Katyal , Jessica L. Ellsworth , Frederick Liu , Sean Marotta , Mitchell P. Reich , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC, Sara Solow , Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Petitioner.

Paul J. Napoli , Hunter J. Shkolnik , Marie Napoli , Shayna E. Sacks , Jennifer Liakos , Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, New York, NY, Thomas C. Goldstein , Eric F. Citron , Charles H. Davis , Goldstein & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, for Respondents.


More than 600 plaintiffs, most of whom are not California residents, filed this civil action in a California state court against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), asserting a variety of state-law claims based on injuries allegedly caused by a BMS drug called Plavix. The California Supreme Court...

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