Legal Opinion
Ashley County, Ark. v. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 5, 2009No. 08-1491PublishedCited by 483 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
Twenty individual counties in Arkansas brought this civil suit against Pfizer, Inc., PDK Labs, Inc., Warner Lambert Company, LLC, Johnson & Johnson, Perrigo Company, and various John Does (collectively “Defendants”), 1 each of whom manu factures or distributes products containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. The complaint sought compensation to recoup the costs expended by the counties in dealing with the societal effects of the methamphetamine epidemic in Arkansas, with liability premised on the use of the Defendants’ products in the methamphetamine manufacturing…
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