Mable Annette Hughes McDONAL, Parent and Next Friend of Jamielee Hughes McDonal; Darryl A. McDonal, Parent and Next Friend of Jamielee Hughes McDonal, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
ABBOTT LABORATORIES, et al., Defendants,
Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; American Home Products Corp., doing business as Wyeth Laboratories; Wyeth-Ayerst; Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories; Wyeth Lederle; Wyeth Lederle Vaccines; Lederle Laboratories; Aventis Pasteur Inc., Individually and as successor in interest to Connaught; Baxter International Inc.; Eli Lilly & Co.; Emerck; GDL International, Inc.; Glaxosmithkline, Individually, and as successor in interest to Smithkline Beecham Corp.; Merck & Company Inc.; Sigma Aldrich, Inc.; Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp.; Urquima; Mitzi Ferguson, M.D.; Leslie Lamar Jones, M.D.; River Oaks Hospital, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 26, 2005.
Rehearing Denied June 6, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Nathaniel Austin Bosio, Dogan & Wilkinson, Pascagoula, MS, Charles S. Siegel (argued), Susan L. Hays, Waters & Kraus, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Richard L. Josephson, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, for Abbott Laboratories, Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc.
George Q. Evans, Eugene Randolph Naylor, Gaye Nell Currie, Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
Christy D. Jones, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, Richard William Mark, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, New York City, for American Home Products Corp., Wyeth-Ayerst, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Wyeth Lederle, Wyeth Lederle Vaccines and Lederle Laboratories.
Bradley S. Wolff, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, GA, Richard Lee Jones, Robert L. Gibbs, Brunini, Gratham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS, for Aventis Pasteur, Inc.
Donna Brown Jacobs, Lee Davis Thames, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, Joseph Kyle Fulcher, Baker Donelson Bearman, Jackson, MS, for Baxter Intern., Inc.
Deborah A. Moeller (argued), James J. Bartley, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Eli Lilly & Co.
Roy C. Williams, Williams, Heidelberg, Steinberger & McElhaney, Pascagoula, MS, for GDL Intern., Inc.
Ross F. Bass, Jr., Tana Nicole Vollendorf, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, Sessions Ault Hootsell, III, John P. Manard, Jr., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, Barclay A. Manley, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, Marcy Hogan Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TX, for GlaxoSmithKline.
Mildred M. Morris, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, for Merck & Co., Inc.
Neville Henry Boschert, John David Shaw, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, David Michael Macdonald, Amelia Susan Harris, David C. Colley, Macdonald Devin, Dallas, TX, for Sigma Aldrich, Inc.
Christopher W. Bayuk, Bayuk & Associates, San Diego, CA, for Spectrum Chemical Mfg. Corp.
Chris J. Walker, Markow, Walker & Reeves, Ridgeland, MS, for Ferguson and Jones.
Stephen P. Kruger, Page, Kruger & Holland, Jackson, MS, for River Oaks Hosp.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:
In this products liability action, plaintiffs and Mississippi residents Mabel and Daryl McDonal ("the McDonals") filed suit against various foreign and local defendants— the manufacturers and distributors of Thimerosal, the manufacturers of the vaccines which contained Thimerosal, the doctors who administered the vaccines, and River Oaks Hospital. On appeal, the McDonals challenge the district court's denial of their motions...
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