Legal Opinion
Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 22, 1990PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Casey, J. P.
At issue on this appeal is whether the infant plaintiif, Karen Enright (hereinafter plaintiff), who was born with various physical disabilities, has a cause of action against the manufacturers of the drug diethylstilbestrol (hereinafter DES), which was allegedly ingested by plaintiffs grandmother while pregnant with plaintiffs mother and allegedly caused certain physical abnormalities in the mother which, in turn, caused the physical disabilities with which plaintiff was subsequently born. Supreme Court answered this question in the negative and dismissed all…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Codling v. PagliaNew York Court of Appeals · 1973
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- Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1989
- Caprara v. Chrysler Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1981
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