Legal Opinion
Price v. Wyeth Holdings Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2007No. 06-2072PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Charles Price voluntarily dismissed his Indiana state-court lawsuit against American Cyanamid Company and Lederle Laboratories in 1993. Unbeknownst to the defendants, Price then reinstated the suit five years later and obtained a $5 million default judgment from the state court. Price’s attorney gave the defendants no notice of these proceedings until he sought to collect on the judgment in 2004, at which point the defendants quickly removed the case to federal court and had the default judgment vacated based on the lack of notice. The district court ultimately granted…
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