Legal Opinion
Willis v. Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 6, 1994No. 92-02361PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT M. PARKER, District Judge:
Robert E. Willis (“Willis”) filed this action in Texas state court on July 31, 1991, asserting negligence and defamation claims arising out of a test of Willis’s urine that resulted in a false positive for methamphetamines. Willis brought action against Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc. (“Roche”), the laboratory that performed the urinalysis; E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (“Du Pont”), his employer; and four Du Pont employees, George M. Allison, M.D., Bill Pace, Bill Brin-ghurst, and Martha Kivlovitz. (The Du Pont company and its employees are referred to…
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