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DOE v. CUTTER BIOLOGICAL, INC.

Nos. 89-15274, 89-15839.

971 F.2d 375 (1992)

John DOE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CUTTER BIOLOGICAL, INC., A DIVISION OF MILES LABORATORIES, INC., Miles Laboratories, Inc., Travenol Laboratories, Inc., Armour Pharmaceutical Corporation, Alpha Therapeutic Corporation and United States of America, Defendants-Appellees. John SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CUTTER BIOLOGICAL, INC., A DIVISION OF MILES LABORATORIES, INC., Miles Laboratories, Inc., Travenol Laboratories, Inc., Armour Pharmaceutical Corporation, Alpha Therapeutic Corporation and United States of America, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Withdrawn from Submission November 28, 1990.

Resubmitted July 14, 1992.

Decided July 29, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Kozak and John Rapp, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs-appellants John Doe and John Smith.

David I. Bell, Knapp, Peterson & Clarke, Universal City, Cal., for defendant-appellee Alpha Therapeutic Corp.

Duncan Barr, Deborah H. Leibman, O'Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee Cutter Biological, a div. of Miles Inc.

Douglas F. Fuson, Sara J. Gourley, Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Illinois, for defendant-appellee Armour Pharmaceutical Co.

Richard L. Berkman, Ellen Sokol, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant-appellee Baxter Healthcare Corp., f/k/a Travenol Laboratories.

Geoffrey R. W. Smith, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson, Washington, D.C., of counsel for defendants-appellees.

Michael Chun, Asst. U.S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, Roger D. Einerson, Nikki Calvano, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee U.S. of America.

Before: D.W. NELSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and TASHIMA, District Judge.

D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge:

John Doe and John Smith filed separate suits against the manufacturers of a blood clotting factor and the United States. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of all defendants in both cases. Because the two cases raise similar issues, we have consolidated them for the purposes of this appeal.

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John Doe and John Smith are hemophiliacs who have tested HIV positive. They received a clotting agent known...

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