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OSBORN v. IRWIN MEMORIAL BLOOD BANK

Docket No. A044982.

5 Cal.App.4th 234 (1992)

7 Cal. Rptr.2d 101

PAUL OSBORN et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. IRWIN MEMORIAL BLOOD BANK et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Four.

April 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michael J. Moriarty and John Daniel for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Charles Bond, Stefanie Gandolfi, O'Connor, Cohn, Dillon & Barr, Duncan Barr, Lisa Ungerer, James C. Martin, John McDougall Kern, Mary C. Oppedahl, Paul D. Fogel and Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May for Defendants and Appellants.

Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants. Fred J. Hiestand as Amicus Curiae.

OPINION

PERLEY, J.

The trial in this case has been reported as the first in the nation where a blood bank was found liable in connection with transmission of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus by a blood transfusion.

In February of 1983, at the age of three weeks, Michael Osborn contracted the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion in the course of surgery on his heart at the University of California at San...

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