IN RE PETITION OF BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM

No. 13-3898.

745 F.3d 216 (2014)

In Re Petition of BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., and BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH, in Pradaxa (Dabigatran Etexilate) Products Liability Litigation.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 24, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan Howe Ball , Attorney, Bryan Cave LLP, St. Louis, MO, Beth Rose , Attorney, Sills, Cummis, Zuckerman, Radin, Tischman, Epstein & Gross, Newark, NJ, for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH.

Roger Clark Denton , Attorney, Schilchter, Bogard & Denton, St. Louis, MO, Mark Robert Niemeyer , Attorney, Onder, Shelton, O'leary & Peterson, LLC, Webster Groves, MO, for Pradaxa (Dabigatran Etexilate) Products.

Before POSNER, SYKES, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Pradaxa is a prescription blood-thinning drug manufactured by an American company and its German affiliate (collectively Boehringer). A number of suits against Boehringer complaining about the accuracy of the warning label on the drug have been consolidated in the Southern District of Illinois for pretrial proceedings. The litigation is in the discovery stage. On December 9 of the just-ended year, the district judge presiding over the litigation...

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