HUNT v. McNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE

Civil Action No. 11-457.

6 F.Supp.3d 694 (2014)

Keisha HUNT v. McNEIL CONSUMER HEALTHCARE, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

Signed March 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patty Ann Trantham , Robert Lyle Salim , Salim-Beasley, LLC, Natchitoches, LA, Jay Hodges Henderson , Jay Henderson, PLLC, Joseph C. Melugin , Kenneth Thomas Fibich , Russell S. Briggs , Fibich, Hampton, Leebron, Briggs & Josephson, LLP, Sara J. Fendia , Law Offices of Sara J. Fendia, Houston, TX, Val Patrick Exnicios , Liska, Exnicios & Nungesser, New Orleans, LA, for Keisha Hunt.

James B. Irwin , Douglas J. Moore , Kelly E. Brilleaux , Timothy Farrow Daniels , Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, LLC, New Orleans, LA, Charles Coleman Lifland , O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Kari L. Sutherland , Paul Victor Cassisa, Jr. , Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Oxford, MS, Kenneth P. Conour , Preuss, Shanagher, Zvoleff & Zimmer, Matthew P. Smith , Vernon I. Zvoleff , Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for McNeil Consumer Healthcare, et al.


ORDER AND REASONS

JANE TRICHE MILAZZO, District Judge.

Defendants have raised the affirmative defense of preemption. The question presented is whether Plaintiff's product liability claims are preempted by federal law. For the following reasons, the Court finds Defendants have failed to carry their burden of demonstrating preemption.

BACKGROUND

This a pharmaceutical products liability action. Plaintiff Keisha Hunt suffered personal...

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