WELD v. GLAXO WELLCOME INC.


434 Mass. 81 (2001)

JOHN WELD, JR., & another v. GLAXO WELLCOME INC. & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 1, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph T. Lepore, III (Elizabeth M. Mitchell & Deborah E. Barnard with him) for Glaxo Wellcome Inc.

Fred A. Kelly, Jr. (Leigh-Ann M. Patterson with him) for Warner-Lambert Company.

David R. Geiger (Karen B. Dietrich with him) for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.

Arthur R. Miller (Jeffery Krinsk, of California, & David Pastor with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.


SPINA, J.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order of a Superior Court judge certifying a plaintiff class under Mass. R. Civ. P. 23, 365 Mass. 767 (1974). Three defendants, Glaxo Wellcome Inc. (Glaxo); Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. (Roche); and Warner-Lambert Company (Warner-Lambert), sought review of the order, pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 118, first par. A single justice of the Appeals Court denied the defendants' petition, but granted them leave to appeal from...

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