Legal Opinion
In Re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided November 8, 2007No. MDL NO. 1657PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER & REASONS
ELDON E. FALLON, United States District Judge.
Before the Court is Merck & Co., Inc.’s second Motion for Summary Judgment (Rec.Doc.12725) on statutes of limitations grounds. As it now stands, the instant motion addresses the claims of three plaintiffs from Pennsylvania, one plaintiff from Puerto Rico, and one plaintiff from Illinois, all of which are part of this MDL in the three above-captioned cases. 1 On March 22, 2007, the Court denied a similar motion involving three individual plaintiffs from Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. See In re Vioxx Prods. Liab. Litig., 478…
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- Brown v. Biomet Orthopedics, LLCDistrict Court, N.D. Indiana · 2017
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