Legal Opinion
Sidney Hillman Health Center o v. Abbott Laboratories, Incorpora
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 13, 2015No. 14-2282, 14-2909PublishedCited by 245 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants are a group of multi-employer benefit funds challenging the dismissal of their putative class action alleging that Abbott Laboratories, Inc., and its subdivision AbbVie, Inc. (collectively, “Abbott”), violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) through efforts to promote the anticonvulsant medication Depakote for ineffective and unsafe uses. The district court dismissed the case with prejudice as barred by the statute of limitations, concluding that a reasonable benefit fund would have discovered its injuries in 1998, when the…
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