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DE BOUSE v. BAYER

No. 107528.

922 N.E.2d 309 (2009)

235 Ill.2d 544

Teresa DE BOUSE, Appellee, v. BAYER AG et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

December 17, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip S. Beck and Andrew L. Goldman, of Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Stephen C. Carlson, J. Randal Wexler and Charles K. Schafer, of Sidley Austin LLP, all of Chicago, Terry Lueckenhoff and Katherine M. Fowler, of Fox Galvin, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, for appellants Bayer AG et al.

John E. Galvin and Jonathan Garside, of Fox Galvin, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri, for appellants GlaxoSmithKline & GlaxoSmithKline PLC.

Christopher Cueto, Belleville, William R. Quinlan, James R. Carroll and Shawn M. Staples, of Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C., Chicago, and John J. Driscoll, of Driscoll & Cueto, St. Louis, Missouri, for appellee.

Lawrence R. Kream, Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.

OPINION

Justice GARMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Plaintiff brought a claim under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (Consumer Fraud Act or Act) (815 ILCS 505/1 et seq. (West 2004)). She alleges that the defendant drug manufacturer deceived the medical community and the public at-large by concealing information about negative side effects of the defendant's cholesterol-lowering drug. In this case, we are...

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