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ODOM v. G.D. SEARLE & CO.

No. 92-1085.

979 F.2d 1001 (1992)

Betty L. ODOM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. G.D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Fred Kuhn, Jr., Moss & Kuhn, P.A., Beaufort, S.C., argued (James H. Moss, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Elizabeth C. Honeywell, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., argued (Paul F. Strain, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., H. Simmons Tate, Jr., J. Calvin Bruton, Jr., Sinkler & Boyd, P.A., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.

OPINION

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff in this case, Mrs. Betty Odom, became sterile as a result of two ectopic pregnancies, which she claims were caused by an intrauterine device manufactured by G.D. Searle & Company. She has sued Searle on a failure-to-warn theory. The district court granted Searle's motion for summary judgment because "plaintiff has presented nothing to establish a causative link...

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