Legal Opinion
Walton v. Bayer Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 23, 2011No. 10-3462PublishedCited by 107 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, a citizen of Illinois, brought suit in an Illinois state court against a number of Bayer affiliates, all citizens of states other than Illinois, plus Niemann Foods, Inc., an Illinois citizen. The suit charges the defendants with violating Illinois tort law by failing to warn of dangerous side effects of Yazmin, a prescription oral-contraceptive drug manufactured by a German affiliate of the Bayer defendants (the manufacturer is not a defendant) and bought by the plaintiff at a pharmacy operated by Niemann; she claims to have been seriously injured by the…
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