ABBOTT v. MULLIGAN

Case No. 2:06-CV-593.

647 F.Supp.2d 1286 (2009)

Charles F. ABBOTT, Plaintiff, v. Patrick J. MULLIGAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Utah, Central Division.

August 13, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Ashton, Sam Meziani, Thomas R. Barton, Van Cott Bagley Cornwall & McCarthy, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff.

Erik A. Christiansen, Parsons Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT, John Volney, Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox LLP, Dallas, TX, Margaret N. McGann, Parsons Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

DEE BENSON, District Judge.

BACKGROUND

The present case involves a dispute between two attorneys—Charles Abbott and Patrick Mulligan. In 2001, Mr. Abbott and Mr. Mulligan agreed to jointly pursue plaintiffs' cases involving the diet-drug known as Fen-Phen. Despite its popularity during the mid-1990's, Fen-Phen was withdrawn from the market in 1997 after some users experienced heart-valve abnormalities and pulmonary...

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