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AARNES v. MERCK & CO.

Civ. No. 75-594.

532 F.Supp. 148 (1980)

Florence Christina AARNES, Plaintiff, v. MERCK & CO.; Sterling Drug, Inc.; Upjohn Co.; Robins Co.; Lederle Laboratories, a Division of American Cyanamid Co.; Parke-Davis Corp., A Division of Warner Lambert & Co.; E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., a Division of Squibb Corp.; Schering Corp., a Division of Schering-Plough Corp.; Organon Corp., a subsidiary of Akonza Corp.; Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Pfizer, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford G. Frayne, Newark, N.J., for plaintiff.

James L. Melhuish, Livingston, N.J., for Pfizer, Inc.

Eugene M. Purcell, Pluckemin, N.J., for Parke-Davis & Co.

Mark M. Bridge, Mt. Holly, N.J., for A.H. Robins Co.

Lee A. Adlerstein, Newark, N.J., for E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.

Franklin C. Steinberg, Newark, N.J., for Merck & Co.

Mary B. Rogers, Jersey City, N.J., for Upjohn Co.

Roger L. Toner, Newark, N.J., for Schering Corp.

MEMORANDUM

BIUNNO, District Judge.

In this diversity jurisdiction suit, the plaintiff, a citizen of Texas, originally sued 10 pharmaceutical manufacturers for alleged personal injury claimed to have been sustained as the result of manufacturing and marketing medications within a class generally labelled as "corticosteroids" indicated for the treatment of asthma, without adequate warnings that prolonged use would...

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