Legal Opinion
Lydia Basko v. Sterling Drug, Inc., and Winthrop Laboratories
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 7, 1969No. 32669_1PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:
In the field of drug marketing, as Professor Kessler writes in a thoughtful article, “defining the outer limits of strict liability presents us with most difficult questions of policy.” Kessler, Products Liability, 76 Yale L.J. 887, 930 (1967). This case demands analysis of those “outer limits.”
The plaintiff, Mrs. Lydia Basko, appeals from a judgment entered for the defendant drug manufacturers, Sterling Drug, Inc. and Winthrop Laboratories, after a two-week jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Edward C. McLean, Judge.…
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