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IN RE MASSACHUSETTS DIET DRUG LITIGATION

No. CIV.A.04-10911-GAO.

338 F.Supp.2d 198 (2004)

In re MASSACHUSETTS DIET DRUG LITIGATION

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

September 17, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Appel, Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C., Boston, MA, for Mary Andrus, Barbara Williams, Eleanor Archambeau, Laural Fankhauser, Lertis Caldwell, Lucinda Youell, Nancy Kennedy, Priscilla Cote, Theresa DeJoy, Diane Bonneau, Plaintiffs.

Edward J. Barshak, Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, Boston, MA, for Mary Andrus, Plaintiff.

Janice W. Howe, William A. McCormack, David Yamin, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston, MA, for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Michael R. Hugo, Lopez Hodes Restaino Milman & Skikos, Boston, MA, Marilyn T. McGoldrick, David C. Strouss, Thornton & Naumes, LLP, Boston, MA, Wyeth, Inc., for Related Plaintiffs in Diet Drug Cases, Plaintiff.

Samuel W. Lanham, Jr., Cuddy & Lanham, Bangor, ME, Neil D. Overholtz, Aylstock, Witkin & Sasser, PLC., Gulf Breeze, FL, for Barbara Williams, Eleanor Archambeau, Laural Fankhauser, Lertis Caldwell, Lucinda Youell, Mary Andrus, Nancy Kennedy, Priscilla Cote, Theresa DeJoy, Related Plaintiffs in Diet Drug Cases, Diane Bonneau, Plaintiffs.

Matthew J. Matule, Skadden, Arps, State, Meagher & Flom LLP, Boston, MA, for Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

I. Introduction

These cases stem from the 1997 removal from the market of the diet drugs fenfluramine (marketed as Pondimin) and dexfenfluramine (marketed as Redux) based on information suggesting a connection between use of the drugs and the development of valvular heart disease ("VHD"). After the diet drugs were removed from the market, thousands of former users...

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