PHILLIPS v. G.D. SEARLE & CO.

Nos. 87-1647, 87-1678, 87-1679 and 87-1680.

884 F.2d 796 (1989)

Phyllis Jean PHILLIPS; Stephen A. Phillips; Joan H. Labow; Jeffrey Labow; Kathryn A. Bond; Roberta DeGennaro; Nicholas DeGennaro, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, and Hugh J. Davis, M.D.; A.H. Robins Company, a Virginia Corporation; Searle Laboratories, a Division of Searle Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants. Laura STONE-PIGOTT, Vicki L. Hughes; Bonnie Georgia, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant. Phyllis Jean PHILLIPS; Stephen A. Phillips, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, and Hugh J. Davis, M.D.; A.H. Robins Company, a Virginia Corporation, Defendants. Joan H. LABOW; Jeffrey Labow, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, and Hugh J. Davis, M.D.; A.H. Robins Company, a Virginia Corporation, Defendants. Kathryn A. BOND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant. Roberta DEGENNARO; Nicholas DeGennaro, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY; Searle Laboratories, a Division of Searle Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Erwin, Jr., (Michael A. Pretl, Pretl & Erwin, P.A., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

James Lindsay Shea, William Warren Hamel (Paul F. Strain, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., Vicki A. Thompson, Ronald R. Marich, G.D. Searle & Co., Skokie, Ill., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER, and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Appellants Phyllis Phillips, Joan Labow, Kathryn Bond and Roberta DeGennaro appeal the district court's decision to grant G.D. Searle & Co. ("Searle") summary judgment in their four consolidated products liability actions. The court held that the three year statute of limitations had expired before the appellants filed suit. Searle cross appeals the district court's denial of its motion for summary judgement against three other plaintiffs: Bonnie Georgia...

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