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ABEL v. AUSTIN

No. 2010-SC-000426-DG.

411 S.W.3d 728 (2013)

Barbara A. ABEL, Aileen Mullins, Andrea Messamore, Arlene Marshall, Belinda A. Million, Bobbie Deaton, Brenda Bray, Carol Ann Quisenberry, Charlotte Renee Hall, Christina Bucher, Claudia Sebastian-Shepard, Darby Daniels, Debbie Wampler, Easter Bishop, Eddie Lee Golden, Elizabeth C. Abney, Elizabeth D. Clore, Gwen Holt, Gwyin Cox, Hallie Traylor, Hubert Trosper, Irene Wells, Iva Stevens, James Cook, James Ingram, Janet Coons-Greene, Jessie Parsons, Jody Baldridge, Judy Bundy, Karen M. Austin, Kathy Pollitte, Leisa Perry, Linda Carr, Lorinda Calhoun, Lynn D. Jeffcoat, Mary Frazier, Melissa Gayhart, Mildred Swanson, Opal Collins, Pamela G. Abrams, Paul Floyd, Peggy W. Broughton, Peggy Grigsby, Reva Helton, Robert Wilson, Shannon M. Hall, Tami Holt, Terry Shanks, Toloria Howard, and Vickie Brewer, Appellants. v. J. Brent AUSTIN; Langston, Sweet and Freese, P.A.; and Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

October 24, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Rambieure , Lexington, Angela Margaret Ford, Counsel for Appellants.

Perry Mack Bentley , Lucy Anne Pett , Carl Norman Frazier , Lexington, Counsel for Appellee J. Brent Austin.

Melissa Subit , Matthew John Bakota , Jeffrey R. Teeters , Counsel for Appellee Langston, Sweet and Freese, P.A.

David Clyde Trimble , Lexington, Robert A. Huffaker, Jr. , Counsel for Appellee Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

Opinion of the Court by Justice VENTERS.

Each of the Appellants in this action was a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought in the Boone Circuit Court,1 Boone County, Kentucky, against American Home Products, the company that marketed the anti-obesity drug combination commonly known as "Fen-Phen." As further explained below, Appellants' claims in that case were transferred from the Boone Circuit Court to a similar action pending in Alabama, where...

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