Legal Opinion
In re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 12, 2002No. MDL No. 1348; Master File No. 00 Civ. 2843PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this putative class action, which has been consolidated for pretrial purposes with hundreds of individual products liability actions, seek relief based upon their ingestion of the prescription drug Rezulin. The matter currently is before the Court on plaintiffs’ motion to certify (1) a class of all persons who ingested Rezulin and their spouses,1 and (2) a subclass of asymptomatic Rezulin users who have not manifested physical injury. The proposed class seeks, among other things, restitution of the revenues defendants realized from the…
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3Cited by54 opinions
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