Meridia Products Liability Litigation, Steering Committee v. Abbott Laboratories

OPINION

R. GUY COLE, JR., Circuit Judge.

In this multi-district product liability case, Plaintiffs-Appellants — certain current and past consumers of the diet-drug Meridia, whose actions were transferred to, or originated in,‘.the Northern District of. Ohio — appeal the. district court’s grant of summary judgment in- favor of Defendants-Appellees, the pharmaceutical company that marketed and distributed Meri-dia and its affiliates. Plaintiffs argue on appeal that the district court (1)- failed to conduct a meaningful choice-of-law analysis, (2) erred in partly excluding the testimony of one of…