McCormack v. Abbott Laboratories

MEMORANDUM AND ORDERS ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS AND MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

GARRITY, District Judge.

I. DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS TO DISMISS

Defendants Eli Lilly and Company, E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., and Merck & Company, Inc. have filed motions to dismiss plaintiff’s second amended complaint which arises out of the alleged ingestion by plaintiff’s mother of diethylstilbestrol (“DES”) or DES-related compounds or congenors during the pregnancy which resulted in plaintiff’s birth on April 27, 1955. Plaintiff alleges that on or about April, 1974, she developed vaginal adenosis, pre-eancerous lesions in…