WETHERILL v. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Nos. 77 C 1434, 77 C 2485.

565 F.Supp. 1553 (1983)

Rachel WETHERILL, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO and Eli Lilly and Company, Defendants. Maureen ROGERS, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO and Eli Lilly and Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

June 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul F. Stack, Mark D. DeBofsky, Stack & Filpi, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Lane D. Bauer, Steven C. Parrish, Stephen E. Sheve, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Eli Lilly and Co.

John Menk, John Menk & Associates, James W. Gladden, Jr., Judith Janssen, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for defendant University of Chicago.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER*

SHADUR, District Judge.

Both Rachel Wetherill ("Wetherill") and Maureen Rogers ("Rogers") allege they were injured by exposure in utero to diethylstilbestrol ("DES"), manufactured and supplied by Eli Lilly and Company ("Lilly") and administered to plaintiffs' mothers as part of an experiment conducted by Dr. William Dieckmann ("Dieckmann") in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago (...

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