Giles v. Wyeth, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GILBERT, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Jeff Giles, a forty-six-year-old white male, committed suicide on October 30, 2002. Several days earlier, his family physician diagnosed him with depression and prescribed Effexor, an antidepressant. Jacquelyn Giles (Giles), Jeffs widow, contends that Effexor was a proximate cause of his suicide.

In her complaint, Giles alleges that Jeff was a member of a “small vulnerable sub-population” in whom Effexor and other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and selective seratonin norepi-nephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)…