St. Louis University v. United States

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge.

After an adverse jury verdict in a Missouri state court case involving a recipient of Orimune, an oral polio vaccine, St. Louis University (“SLU”) brought this contribution action against the United States government. SLU contended that the government’s improper approval of certain “seeds” of the polio vaccine was the cause of the state-court plaintiffs injuries and that the government was therefore required to contribute to the payment of the Missouri verdict. The district court first ruled that SLU was collaterally estopped from denying certain facts…