Legal Opinion
Smith v. PFIZER INC.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided February 19, 2010No. Case 3:05-0444PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
ALETA A. TRAUGER, District Judge.
Pending before the court is the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by defendants Pfizer Inc. and Warner-Lambert Company LLC (Docket No. 17), the plaintiffs response (Docket No. 51), and the defendants’ reply (Docket No. 55). For the reasons discussed below, the defendants’ motion will be denied.
FACTS
On May 13, 2004, 79-year-old Richard Smith (“Smith”) committed suicide. 1 Two months earlier, Smith had filled a prescription for the medication Neurontin, which is manufactured by defendants Pfizer Inc. and Warner-Lambert Company LLC (collectively,…
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