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UNITED STATES v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

No. 74-1230.

505 F.2d 565 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, a corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 2, 1974.

Certiorari Denied March 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard E. Shapiro, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice (Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Roger B. Andewelt, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice on brief), for appellant.

George M. Burditt, Chicago, Ill., for Abbott Laboratories and Thomas F. Ellis, Raleigh, N. C., for Herbert M. Gross (James R. Phelps and Burditt & Calkins, Chicago, Ill., and James C. Little and Hatch, Little, Bunn, Jones, Few & Berry, Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellee Abbott Laboratories; (Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellee Herbert M. Gross.

Lucas, Rand, Rose, Meyer, Jones & Orcutt and Louis B. Meyer, Wilson, N. C., on brief for appellee Clarence J. Endicott.

Lindsay C. Warren, Jr., John H. Kerr, III, and Taylor, Allen, Warren & Kerr, Goldsboro, N. C., on brief for appellee Robert T. O'Donnell.

C. Kitchin Josey and Josey & Vaughan, Scotland Neck, N. C., on brief for appellee Robert H. Otto.

John R. Jolly, Jr., and Spruill, Trotter & Lane, Rocky Mount, N. C., on brief for appellee Harry Howell.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied March 24, 1975. See 95 S.Ct. 1424.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

The government appeals from the district court's dismissal of a sixty-count indictment charging Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) and five of its current or former employees with causing the introduction into interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded intravenous solution drugs in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 331(a). The district court dismissed the indictment (1) because of prejudicial...

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