Tamara TAYLOR and Lee Ann Rintz, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants,
v.
GATE PHARMACEUTICALS, Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Ion Laboratories, Inc., Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Camall Company, Laboratories Servier, and Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants-Cross-Appellees, and
A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories Company, American Home Products Corporation, Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, and
All Michigan Physicians who prescribed or gave Fen-Phen and/or Redux to Michigan Patients, Defendants.
Tamara Taylor and Lee Anne Rintz, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants,
v.
Gate Pharmaceuticals, Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Ion Laboratories, Inc., A.H. Robins Company, Inc.,
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company, American Home Products Corporation, Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Camall Company, and Laboratories Servier, Defendants-Cross-Appellees, and
Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, and
All Michigan Physicians who prescribed or gave Fen-Phen and/or Redux to Michigan Patients, Defendants.
Tamara Taylor and Lee Anne Rintz, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants,
v.
Gate Pharmaceuticals, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Ion Laboratories, Inc., Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company, American Home Products Corporation, Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Camall Company, and Laboratories Servier, Defendants-Cross-Appellees, and
Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, and
All Michigan Physicians who prescribed or gave Fen-Phen and/or Redux to Michigan Patients, Defendants.
Tamara Taylor and Lee Anne Rintz, Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants,
v.
Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Ion Laboratories, Inc., Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., A.H. Robins Company, Inc., Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company, American Home Products Corporation, Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Camall Company, and Laboratories Servier, Defendants-Cross-Appellees, and
Gate Pharmaceuticals, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, and
All Michigan Physicians who prescribed or gave Fen-Phen and/or Redux to Michigan Patients, Defendants.
Judith H. ROBARDS and Kenneth W. Robards, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Joyce E. KAFERLE, M.D., and Evelyn Eccles, M.D., Defendants, and
Gate Pharmaceuticals, Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Ion Laboratories, Inc., Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., A.H. Robbins Company, American Home Products Corporation, Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., Parmed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eon Labs Manufacturing, Inc., and Les Laboratories Servier, Defendants-Appellees.
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Submitted September 5, 2001, at Detroit.
Decided November 30, 2001, at 9:05 a.m.
Released for Publication February 5, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charfoos & Christenson, P.C. (by David R. Parker, Samuel Simpson, and J. Douglas Peters), Detroit, for Tamara Taylor, Lee Ann Rintz, and Judith H. and Kenneth W. Robards.
Buesser, Buesser, Black, Lynch, Fryhoff & Graham, P.C. (by Ronald F. Graham), Bloomfield Hills, and Schneck Weltman & Hashmall, LLP (by Edward S. Weltman, Jonathan I. Price, and Joanne M. Gray), New York, NY, for Gate Pharmaceuticals.
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn (by Ronald S. Longhofer, Andrew Doctoroff, and Raymond M. Kethledge), Detroit, and Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex and Morley (by John Mitchell and Michael L. Updike), Farmington Hills, and Arnold & Porter (by Donald O. Beers, Darryl W. Jackson, and Michael C. Augustini), Washington, DC, for American Home Products Corporation, A.H. Robins Company, Incorporated, and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company.
Plunkett & Cooney, P.C. (by Robert G. Kamenec, Detroit and William D. Boothi, Chicago, IL), and McDermott, Will & Emery (by Cathy McNeil Stein and Kevin E. Young), Boston, MA, for Medeva Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Kitch Drutchas Wagner DeNardis & Valitutti (by Thomas J. Foley and Linda M. Garbarino), Detroit, for SmithKline Beecham Corporation.
Hickey & Cianciolo, P.C. (by Steven M. Hickey), Detroit, for Richwood Pharmaceutical Company, Inc., and Zenith Goldline Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Mellon, McCarthy & Van Dusen, P.C. (by Daniel J. McCarthy and Richard R. Danforth), Troy, for Abana Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
David S. Zurvalec, Lansing, for the Michigan Manufacturers Association.
Clark Hill P.L.C. (by J. Thomas Lenga)(Hugh F. Young, Jr., of Counsel), Detroit; Reston, VA, for the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.
Pepper Hamilton LLP (by Scott Gorland, Michelle Motowski, and Kelly Schadel), Detroit, and Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp, Washington, DC, for Washington Legal Foundation.
Kelley Cawthorne (by Dennis O. Cawthorne and James Cavanagh), Lansing, and Covington & Burling (by Bruce N. Kuhlik, Marialuisa S. Gallozzi, and Erika F. King), and Russel A. Bantham and Marjorie E. Powell, Washington, DC, for Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers of America.
Before: COLLINS, P.J., and MURPHY and JANSEN, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Michigan.
MURPHY, J.
At issue in these consolidated products liability appeals is the constitutionality of M.C.L. § 600.2946(5), which limits the liability of drug manufacturers and sellers. In Docket Nos. 217269, 217279, 217290, and 217328, defendants American Home Products Corporation,1 Medeva Pharmaceutials, Inc., SmithKline Beecham Corporation, and Gate Pharmaceuticals appeal by leave granted...
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