ALBERS v. ELI LILLY & CO.

No. 03-2320.

354 F.3d 644 (2004)

Katherine M. ALBERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ELI LILLY & CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Rathsack (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

David W. Brooks (argued), Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, John Dames, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

More than a decade after she was diagnosed with a malformed uterus that the physician attributed to her mother's ingestion of DES, Katherine Albers filed this tort action seeking damages from the drug's maker, Eli Lilly & Company. Lilly invoked the statute of limitations, which (the parties agree) is supplied by the local law of the District of Columbia because the suit was filed there and then transferred...

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