Valido-Shade v. Wyeth LLC

MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF SEPARATE PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 9368

BARTLE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Liza Valido-Shade and her husband Tim Shade have sued defendant Wyeth for damages they have allegedly sustained as a result of her ingestion of Wyeth’s diet drugs known as Pondimin® and Redux (“Fen-Phen”). The action was originally filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County and timely removed to this court on the basis of diversity of citizenship. According to plaintiffs, Valido-Shade took the drugs for a number of months in 1996 and 1997 and was diagnosed in 2010 with pulmonary arterial…