Legal Opinion
RSM Richter Inc. v. Aguilar (In Re Ephedra Products Liability Litigation)
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 11, 2006No. 04 MD 1598(JSR), 06 Civ. 538(JSR), 06 Civ. 539(JSR)PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
RAKOFF, District Judge.
Before the substance known as ephedra was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2004, a Canadian-based company named Muscletech Research and Development, Inc. (here referred to, along with its subsidiaries, as “Muscletech”) marketed products containing ephedra in the United States. Some of the consumers suffered severe injuries, such as heart attacks and strokes, and eventually more than thirty civil actions for personal injuries and wrongful deaths allegedly caused by ephedra were filed against Muscletech in state and federal courts in the…
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