ALA. TISSUE CTR. OF UNIV. OF ALA. HEALTH SERVICE FOUNDATION v. SULLIVAN

No. 91-2738.

975 F.2d 373 (1992)

ALABAMA TISSUE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICE FOUNDATION, P.C., an Alabama Corporation, American Red Cross Tissue Services, a Division of the American Red Cross, a California Corporation, Lifenet, a Virginia Corporation, et al., Petitioners, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and David Kessler, Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Burditt (argued), Alan I. Becker, Deborah B. Norton, Burditt & Radzius, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

Don O. Burley, Dept. of Justice, Consumer Litigation, Washington, D.C., Louis W. Sullivan, Washington, D.C., Margaret Porter, Dept. of Health & Human Services, Chief Counsel, Food & Drug Div., Rockville, Md., for respondents.

Before COFFEY and MANION, Circuit Judges, and SHABAZ, District Judge.


SHABAZ, District Judge.

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