Legal Opinion
Porter v. Whitehall Laboratories, Inc.
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided March 30, 1992No. IP 88-1192-CPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ENTRY DISCUSSING SUMMARY JUDGMENT ENTERED IN FAVOR OF DEFENDANTS WHITEHALL LABORATORIES, INC., AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION AND THE UPJOHN COMPANY
TINDER, District Judge.
An essential element of each of Plaintiffs’ claims against the three Defendants is that the Defendants’ products (ibuprofen tablets) were in fact a cause of Plaintiff Manual Porter’s injury, an acute renal failure. In their Motions for Summary Judgment, the Defendants asserted that Plaintiffs’ evidence completely fails on the issue of causation. Plaintiffs are unable to overcome the challenge provided by…
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