WOLFE v. MERRILL NAT. LABORATORIES, INC.

No. 77-2005-NE-CV.

433 F.Supp. 231 (1977)

Katherine G. WOLFE and husband John Eugene Wolfe v. MERRILL NATIONAL LABORATORIES, INC., The William S. Merrill Company, Richardson-Merrill, Inc., Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., American Home Products Corporation, Parke-Davis & Company, Merck & Company, Inc.

United States District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

June 13, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney W. Gilreath, Gilreath, Pryor & Rowland, Knoxville, Tenn., Robert R. Ramsey, Burnett, Ray & Ramsey, Jamestown, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Frederic D. Lamb, Vice President & Counsel, Merrill-National Laboratories, Div. of Richardson-Merrill, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendant Merrill-National.

William B. Freilich, West Point, Pa., of counsel, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Div. of Merck & Co., Inc., for defendant Merck, Sharp & Dohme.

Hedy M. Powell, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.

George M. Richards, Director, Litigation Section, Detroit, Mich., for defendant Parke-Davis & Company.

Neil R. Peterson, Asst. Chief, Torts Section, W. Russell Welsh, Trial Atty., John Marshall Meisburg, Jr., Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Charles H. Anderson, U.S. Atty., Nashville, Tenn., for the U.S.


MEMORANDUM

MORTON, District Judge.

This action is presently before the court on the motion of the United States of America ("the Government") to have the court substitute it as the sole defendant and to dismiss the action for failure on plaintiff's part to exhaust her administrative remedies. Both motions are predicated on the express provisions of the National Swine Flu Immunization Program, P.L. 94-380, 94th...

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