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FINN v. G.D. SEARLE & CO.

Docket No. L.A. 31388.

35 Cal.3d 691 (1984)

677 P.2d 1147

200 Cal. Rptr. 870

MICHAEL FINN, a Minor, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

March 29, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Heily, Blase, Ellison & Wellcome, Heily, Blase & Ellison, David R. Ellison and Richard C. Gilman for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Leonard Sacks, Harvey R. Levine, Edward I. Pollock, Robert E. Cartwright, William M. Shernoff, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Sanford M. Gage, Arne Werchick, Ian Herzog, Glen T. Bashore, Wylie Aitken and Victoria J. De Goff as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Winchester Cooley III, Benton, Orr, Duval & Buckingham and Edwin Duval for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

RICHARDSON, J.*

Plaintiff Michael Finn, a minor, appeals from a judgment for defendants in a civil action for personal injury. The claimed prejudicial error arises from the trial court's modification of certain jury instructions offered by plaintiff. Although we granted hearing in this case to consider the application of strict liability principles to injurious side effects allegedly produced by...

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