Legal Opinion
Elaine Robinson v. Pfizer, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 1, 2017No. 16-2524PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Elaine Robinson is one of 64 women from 29 states who sued Pfizer in a Missouri state court, asserting state-law claims that arose from Pfizer’s manufacture and sale of the drug Lipitor, which they allege causes diabetes. Pfizer removed the ease to federal district court, 1 maintaining that the case lay within its diversity jurisdiction even though the face of the complaint revealed that six of the plaintiffs are citizens of New York where Pfizer is also a citizen. Complete diversity of citizenship, and thus federal subject-matter jurisdiction, therefore appeared to be…
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