CARLIN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S045912.

13 Cal.4th 1104 (1996)

WILMA PEGGY CARLIN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SUTTER COUNTY, Responent; UPJOHN COMPANY, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

August 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wilcoxen, Callahan, Montgomery & Harbison, Callahan & Deacon, Gary B. Callahan, E.S. Deacon and Judith Clark Martin for Petitioner.

Joseph L. Dunn and Gary L. Wilson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Todd W. Kingma, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Michael F. Healy, Frederick D. Baker, Kirk C. Jenkins, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Marie S. Woodbury and Stephen E. Scheve for Real Party in Interest.

Catherine I. Hanson, Fred J. Hiestand, Marjorie E. Powell, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Peter W. Davis, James C. Martin, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Steve Merksamer, John E. Mueller, James C. Gross, Gene Erbin, Dickson, Carlson & Campillo, Hall R. Marston and David R. Venderbush as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, Acting C.J.

In this case we address the question whether a plaintiff alleging injury from ingesting a prescription drug can state a claim against the manufacturer for strict liability and breach of warranty for failure to warn about the known or reasonably scientifically knowable dangerous propensities of its product. We conclude that she can.

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