Legal Opinion
In Re Massachusetts Diet Drug Litigation
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 17, 2004No. CIV.A.04-10911-GAOPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
O’TOOLE, District Judge.
I. Introduction
These cases stem from the 1997 removal from the market of the diet drugs fenflura-mine (marketed as Pondimin) and dexfen-fluramine (marketed as Redux) based on information suggesting a connection between use of the drugs and the development of valvular heart disease (“VHD”). After the diet drugs were removed from the market, thousands of former users brought numerous product liability lawsuits, including approximately one hundred class actions, against American Home Products Corp. In 1997, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict…
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