Legal Opinion
Clark v. PFIZER INC.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 19, 2010No. 754 EDA 2009PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
ALLEN, J.:
¶ 1 Gregory Clark and Linda Meashey, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated (“Appellants”), appeal from the trial court’s February 9, 2009 order decertifying the class action and granting partial summary judgment in favor of Pfizer Inc. and Warner-Lambert Company, LLC (“Defendants”). We affirm the trial court’s order to the extent that it decerti-fied the class, concluding that Appellants cannot satisfy the commonality and typicality requirements because individual issues of reliance and/or causation predominated the class’ claims. We vacate the trial…
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