WADE v. DANEK MEDICAL INC.

Civil Action No. 3:95CV876.

5 F.Supp.2d 379 (1998)

Jeanette WADE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DANEK MEDICAL INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

May 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Vincent Shaheen, Shaheen & Shaheen, Richmond, VA, John J. Cummings, III, New Orleans, LA, Easter Peter Moses, Law Office of Easter P. Moses, Roanoke, VA, Donna S. Cummings, Frank C. Dudenhefer, Jr., Cummings, Cummings & Dudenhefer, New Orleans, LA, Thomas J. Kliebert, Jr., Gramercy, LA, Darryl Tschirn, New Orleans, LA, for Jeannette Wade and Edwin Wade.

Gary J. Spahn, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, VA, Stephen S. Phillips, Philip Lebowitz, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, PA, Margaret S. Woodruff, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, Robert Armistead Angle, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, VA, Edward Hutton Starr, Jr., Dabney Jefferson Carr, IV, Mays & Valentine, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, George Lehner, Pepper Hamilton, Washington, DC, James F. Roegge, Richard L. Pemberton, Jr., Meagher & Geer, Minneapolis, MN, Hill Beverley Wellford, III, Christian & Barton, Richmond, VA, Norman P. Jeddeloh, David M. Rownd, Burditt & Radzius, Chicago, IL, Lauren E. Remick, Burditt and Radzius, Philadelphia, PA, Mitchell Stearn, K. Thomas Shahriari, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, June J. Essis, Fineman & Bach, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Shawn M. Collins, The Collins Law Firm, Naperville, IL, Fred Krutz, Daniel J. Mulholland, David H. Fulcher, Roland M. Slover, Edwin S. Gault, Jr., Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, P.L.L.C., Jackson, MS, Robert E. Nord, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, Janet L. MacDonell, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, LA, Julie A. Harms, Michael J. Leech, Thomas F. Ging, Hinshaw and Culbertson, Chicago, IL, W. Lee Kohler, Joseph McReynolds, Douglas Elliott, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Richard I. Werder, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, OH, Louis A. Bove, Bodell, Bove & Van Horn, Philadelphia, PA, John C. Ivins, Jr., Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, David Wayne Robinson, Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, Richmond, Michael R. Fruehwald, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, Franklin Brawner Greer, McGuire. Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Robert William McFarland, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Norfolk, George J. Murphy, Hecker, Brown, Sherry and Johnson, Philadelphia, PA, Tracy E. Gold, Aubert and Pajares, Metairie, LA, William W. Dunlap, Jr., James D. Wilson, Harris, Shelton, Dunlap and Cobb, Memphis, TN, Gary Allen Kalbaugh, Jr., Robert Gerard Harrington, Kalbaugh, Pfund & Messersmith, P.C., Richmond, VA, Lawrence A. Mann, Stanton E. Shuler, Jr., Leake and Andersson, New Orleans, LA, J. Kurt Straub, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Sippel, Philadelphia, PA, Vijay Kumar Mago, Hunton & Williams, Harry Margerum Johnson, III, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, Matthew James Calvert, Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, GA, Brian P. Quirk, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Paul Dennis Krause, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Washington, DC, Robert R. Reeder, Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, David P. Corrigan, Harman, Claytor, Corrigan & Wellman, Richmond, VA, Thomas G. Stayton, Leslie S. Rogers, Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, IN, Albert J. Dahm, Baker & Daniels, Fort Wayne, IN, Sarah L. Olson, Richard C. Bartelt, Wildman, Harrold, Allen and Dixon, Chicago, IL, Carl A. Henlein, Brown, Todd and Heyburn, Louisville, KY, Stacy C. Taylor, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, PLC, Richmond, VA, Susan S. Wettle, Lori E. Hammond, Charles M. Pritchett, Jr., Brown, Todd & Heyburn, Douglas W. Langdon, Brown, Todd & Heyburn, Louisville, KY, for Danek Medical, Inc., Sofamor, Inc., Sofamor-Danek Group, Inc., Sofamor, S.N.C., Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., Eduardo Luque, Charles E. Johnston, II, Richard Ashman, Ph.D., Gary Lowery, George Rapp, Ensor Transfeldt, John A. Herring, Thomas Whitecloud, III, Thomas A. Zdeblick, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, North American Spine Society, Scoliosis Research Society, Acromed Corporation, Charter Number 614043, Acromed Corp., (Now Acromed Corporation, Charter Number 614043), Acromed Corporation, Charter Number 816942, Acromed, Inc. Charter Number 811415, Acromed Incorporated, (Now Acromed Inc., Charter No. 811415), Acromed Incorporated, Charter Number 816943, Acromed Holding Corporation, Charter Number 811416, Acromed Corporation, (Now Acromed Holding Corporation, Charter Number 811416), Ace Medical Company, Advanced Spine Fixation Systems, Inc., Cross Medical Products, Depuy-Motech, Inc., Scientific Spinal, Smith & Nephew Richards, Inc., Synthes (U.S.A), Synthes, Inc., Synthes North America, Inc., Synthes, A.G. Chur, Zimmer, Inc., Spinal Science Advancement Foundation, Youngwood Medical Specialities, Inc., Hansen Yuan, M.D., Richard W. Treharne, Ph.D., Ermon R. Pickard and Stuart Medical Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

RICHARD L. WILLIAMS, Senior District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on defendants' motions for summary judgment and dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction. This case is one of more than two thousand separate products liability actions filed by more than five thousand plaintiffs claiming that defective "pedicle screw fixation devices" which have been surgically attached to the pedicles of their spine have caused them...

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