DOBBS v. WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS

No. 08-6018.

606 F.3d 1269 (2010)

Annabel DOBBS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS, Defendant-Appellee. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.; Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

June 2, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Charles Frederick, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC (Arnold Anderson Vickery, Vickery, Waldner & Mallia, L.L.P., Houston, TX and Earl Landers Vickery, Austin, TX, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Malcolm Edward Wheeler, Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell, L.L.P., Denver, CO (Mark Herrmann, Jones Day, Chicago, IL; Thomas G. Wolfe and Douglas M. Todd, Phillips, McFall, McCaffrey, McVay & Murrah, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK; and David Booth Alden, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Robert A. Long, Jr., Michael X. Imbroscio, Paul W. Schmidt, and Erika F. Lietzan, Covington & Burling, L.L.P., Washington, DC, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in support of Defendant-Appellee.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston VA; Kenneth S. Geller and David M. Gossett, Mayer Brown, L.L.P., Washington, DC; and Robin S. Conrad and Amar D. Sarwal, National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington DC, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. and Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America in support of Defendant-Appellee.

Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, and HENRY and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.


HENRY, Circuit Judge.

Annabel Dobbs has alleged that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals failed to adequately label its antidepressant Effexor to warn of suicide risk, and that this failure to warn caused her husband's 2002 suicide while he was taking Effexor. The district court granted partial summary judgment to Wyeth, holding that Ms. Dobbs's failure to warn claim against Wyeth was preempted by federal law. After the district court's decision, the Supreme Court established a...

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