FREE v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

No. CIV. A. 93-971-A.

982 F.Supp. 1211 (1997)

Robin FREE and Renee Free v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Mead Johnson & Company.

United States District Court, M.D. Louisiana.

November 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Wayne Pendley, A Professional Law Corp., Plaquemine, LA, Michael D. Hausfeld, Daniel A. Small, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Eric L. Olson, Daniel E. Gustafson, Kent M. Williams, Renae D. Steiner, Heins Mills & Olson, P.L.C., Minneapolis, MN, Howard J. Sedran, Jonathan Shub, Donald E. Haviland, Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, Don Barrett, Don Barrett Law Offices, Lexington, MS, Gordon Ball, Knoxville, TN, for Plaintiffs.

William R. D'Armond, James P. Dore, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, Phillip A. Wittman, John M. Landis, Edwin H. Neill, III, Stone, Pigmann, Walther, Wittman & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, James Andrew Langan, Frank Cicero, Jr., Leslie M. Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Abbott Laboratories, Inc.

Phillip A. Wittman, John M. Landis, Edwin H. Neill, III, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittman & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, Douglas D. Broadwater, Max R. Shulman, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for Defendants Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co., Inc. and Mead Johnson & Co.


RULING ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

This matter is before the court on motions to dismiss, or in the alternative, for summary judgment by defendants, Bristol-Myers-Myers Squibb Company and Mead Johnson & Company. Also pending is a motion to dismiss by defendants, Abbott Laboratories. Because Abbott Laboratories adopts the memoranda filed on behalf of Bristol-Myers and Mead Johnson, the...

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