FOISTER v. PURDUE PHARMA, L.P.

No. CIV.A. 6:01-268-DCR.

295 F.Supp.2d 693 (2003)

Amy FOISTER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PURDUE PHARMA, L.P., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky. London Division.

December 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Annette Morgan-White, Morgan & White, Manchester, KY, Gregory A. Keyser, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, R. Scott Madden, Madden & Roberts, Manchester, KY, William A. Hayes, Middlesboro, KY, for Rodney Howard, Bridgette Howard, James Presley Craig, Shelley Robbins Carroll, Jerrie Ann Tolliver Wynn, George Allen Saylor, Sheila Smith Saylor.

Annette Morgan-White, Morgan & White, Manchester, KY, Beverly H. Pace, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, Gregory A. Keyser, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, R. Scott Madden, Madden & Roberts, Manchester, KY, William A. Hayes, Middlesboro, KY, Janet G. Abaray, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, for Michael Lee Daniels, Robin Denise Johnson Griffin.

Annette Morgan-White, Morgan & White, Manchester, KY, Gregory A. Keyser, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, Janet G. Abaray, Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman & Skikos, Cincinnati, OH, R. Scott Madden, Madden & Roberts, Manchester, KY, William A. Hayes, Middlesboro, KY, for Amy Foister.

Annette Morgan-White, Morgan & White, Manchester, KY, R. Scott Madden, Madden & Roberts, Manchester, KY, William A. Hayes, Middlesboro, KY, for Jerrie Ann Tolliver Wynn.

B. Amy O'Nan, Stites & Harbison, Lexington, KY, Chilton Davis Varner, King & Spaulding, Atlanta, GA, Daniel E. Danford, Stites & Harbison, Lexington, KY, Donald I. Strauber, Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, New York, NY, John M. Famularo, III, Stites & Harbison, Lexington, KY, for Purdue Pharma L.P., Purdue Pharma, Inc., Purdue Frederick Company.

Keith Moorman, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Lexington, KY, M. King Hill, III, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, LLP, Towson, MD, Maria F. Howell, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Paul F. Strain, Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, MD, Susan J. Mohler, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Lexington, KY, for Abbott Laboratories.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REEVES, District Judge.

This action involves claims by a number of plaintiffs (both individuals and representatives of estates) who assert that they have been harmed by OxyContin® ("OxyContin"), a pain-relieving drug manufactured by the Purdue defendants ("Purdue") and marketed by defendant Abbot Laboratories, Inc. ("Abbott"). While the use of OxyContin by some plaintiffs began legitimately, others abused the drug from the...

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