Legal Opinion
In Re Bendectin Products Liability Litigation
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided January 17, 1990No. Misc. 85-0996PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
CARL B. RUBIN, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the Court on a motion for summary judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56 filed by defendant Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Merrell Dow). 1 Plaintiffs have filed an opposing memorandum and the defendant has subsequently replied.
Plaintiffs filed these products liability cases, now consolidated for trial before this Court, seeking damages for birth defects allegedly sustained by the minor plaintiffs as a result of their mothers’ ingestion of the drug, Bendectin, during pregnancy. Merrell Dow, the manufacturer of Bendec-tin, moves for…
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