Legal Opinion
Foister v. Purdue Pharma, L.P.
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided December 30, 2003No. CIV.A. 6:01-268-DCRPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
REEVES, District Judge.
This action involves claims by a number of plaintiffs (both individuals and representatives of estates) who assert that they have been harmed by OxyContin® (“Oxy-Contin”), a pain-relieving drug manufactured by the Purdue defendants (“Purdue”) and marketed by defendant Abbot Laboratories, Inc. (“Abbott”). While the use of OxyContin by some plaintiffs began legitimately, others abused the drug from the outset and in a manner that was clearly contrary to the instructions of their prescribing physicians. And although a variety of factual…
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Schedin v. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2012
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