Doe v. Eli Lilly & Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on the motion of defendant Eli Lilly & Company, Inc., (“Lilly”) a pharmaceuticals manufacturer, to compel discovery—more precisely, to facilitate it—namely, to require plaintiffs to execute appropriate written forms addressed to their various physicians authorizing them to release to defendant’s attorneys such information about them as the physicians may have acquired in a privileged capacity. For the reasons hereafter stated defendant’s motion will be granted.

Plaintiffs Mary and Scott Doe, mother and child, allege…