Consumer Federation of America v. Upjohn Company

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellants, the Consumer Federation of America and the National Council of Senior Citizens, filed a similar cause of action against each of three different drug companies on behalf of themselves, their members and all other purchasers of certain allegedly ineffective drugs to recover the money spent by purchasers of such drugs and to obtain punitive damages. 1 The appellants assert that the subject drugs were sold by the defendant companies after the defendants knew or should have known that the drugs were ineffective. An individual plaintiff, an appellant here,…