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CARLENSTOLPE v. MERCK & CO., INC.

No. 85 CIV. 10056.

638 F.Supp. 901 (1986)

Eric CARLENSTOLPE, Plaintiff, v. MERCK & CO., INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 27, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kreindler & Kreindler by Paul S. Edelman, New York City (Koritz & Fuller by David Otis Fuller, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Shanely & Fisher, P.C. (James M. Altieri, Thomas F. Campion, of counsel), New York City, for defendant.

OPINION

MOTLEY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Eric Carlenstolpe is a Swedish resident and citizen who suffered serious injury in the form of disabling arthritis after he received two doses of a hepatitis vaccine, HB-Vax, that had been developed, tested, and manufactured by defendant in the United States. Plaintiff, who is an opera singer, had been injected with the vaccine in Sweden while he was working part-time as a medical laboratory assistant. The vaccine,...

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