JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, INC. v. JACKSON

No. 2003-IA-00440-SCT.

883 So.2d 91 (2004)

JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA, INC., and Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Hattie JACKSON, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna Brown Jacobs, Christy D. Jones, John C. Henegan, Robert L. Johnson, L. Carl Hagwood, Clifford B. Ammons, Jackson, Robert K. Upchurch, Tupelo, Whitman B. Johnson, III, Juliette Veronica Wilson, Al Nuzzo, Laura G. Mckinley, Martin R. Jelliffe, Thomas M. Louis, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Jackson, Kari Louise Foster, Michael Bradford Hewes, Gulfport, David W. Upchurch, Josiah Dennis Coleman, Jason Edward Dare, Jackson, B. Wayne Williams, Dan W. Webb, Tupelo, attorneys for appellants.

William B. Gill, III, Elizabeth Ann Santangini, James M. Priest, Jr., John F. Hawkins, attorneys for appellees.

Before COBB, P.J., CARLSON and DICKINSON, JJ.


DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Hattie Jackson and thirty other Mississippi Plaintiffs ("Plaintiffs") filed suit on July 19, 2002, in the Circuit Court of Holmes County, Mississippi, alleging injuries they claim were caused by the prescription medication Propulsid. The suit was filed against Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc. ("Janssen"), Johnson & Johnson ("Johnson"), 27 prescribing physicians, and 15 drug stores...

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