Legal Opinion
Abel v. Austin
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided October 24, 2013No. 2010-SC-000426-DGPublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Justice VENTERS.
Each of the Appellants in this action was a plaintiff in a lawsuit brought in the Boone Circuit Court,1 Boone County, Kentucky, against American Home Products, the company that marketed the anti-obesity drug combination commonly known as “Fen-Phen.” As further explained below, Appellants’ claims in that case were transferred from the Boone Circuit Court to a similar action pending in Alabama, where Appellants were represented by Kentucky attorney J. Brent Austin (Austin), the Mississippi law firm of Langston, Sweet & Freese, P.A. (Langston), and the…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Meyers v. Chapman Printing Co., Inc.Kentucky Supreme Court · 1992
- Saylor v. HallCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1973
- Bowling v. Kentucky Department of CorrectionsKentucky Supreme Court · 2010
- Troxell v. TrammellKentucky Supreme Court · 1987
- McCollum v. Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Health Corp.Kentucky Supreme Court · 1990
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3Cited by37 opinions
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- Shinkle v. TurnerKentucky Supreme Court · 2016
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