Legal Opinion

In Re Rezulin Products Liability Litigation

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided March 1, 2001No. This paper relates to 00 Civ. 6069, 00 Civ. 7627, 00 Civ. 7628, 00 Civ. 7629, 00 Civ. 7630, 00 Civ. 7631, 00 Civ. 7632, 00 Civ. 7634, 00 Civ. 7635, 00 Civ. 7636, 00 Civ. 7072, 00 Civ. 8501, 00 Civ. 9033, 00 Civ. 9039, 00 Civ. 9131, 01 Civ. 0049. 00 Civ. 2843(LAK)PublishedCited by 61 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KAPLAN, District Judge.

These sixteen actions are among the hundreds seeking recovery for personal injuries allegedly resulting from the use of the prescription diabetes medication, Re-zulin, formerly manufactured by defendants Warner-Lambert Co. and its Parke-Davis division, that have been consolidated here for pretrial proceedings by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Each of these sixteen originally was commenced in a state court and removed by defendants on the basis of diversity of citizenship. The matter now is before the Court on plaintiffs’ motions to…

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