Legal Opinion
Garner v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided March 31, 1984No. Civ. A. 82-0629-1, 82-0628-1PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND JUDGMENT
HAWKINS, District Judge.
These companion product liability actions came on for hearing before the court on January 25, 1984, upon the defendants’ motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The plaintiffs, Anita C. Garner and Reginald R. Garner, are husband and wife. The defendants, Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. and Wyeth Laboratories Division of American Home Products Corporation, are the manufacturers and distributors of the birth control pill, Ovral. Mrs. Garner used Ovral from 1974 to 1976.
The plaintiffs’ complaints, which sound in…
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- Ash v. MortensenCalifornia Supreme Court · 1944
- Couillard v. Charles T. Miller Hospital, Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1958
- Derby v. PrewittNew York Court of Appeals · 1962
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