United States Fifth Circuit

Product liability claims against manufacturers of a childhood vaccine, pharmacies, and the physicians who prescribed it are remanded to the state court from which they were removed, after a ruling on fraudulent joinder.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2003
• Published 09/09/2003

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before EMILIO M. GARZA and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER , District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• F. Gerald Maples (argued), Scott Oliver Nelson, Maples & Lomax, Pascagoula, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants in both cases., Christy D. Jones, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, for Wyeth and Wyether Lederle, Wyether Lederle Vaccines and Lederle Laboratories, Wyeth Laboratories, Wyeth-Ayerst and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories., Richard L. Josephson, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, George Q. Evans, Eugene Randolph Naylor, Gaye Nell Currie, Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Abbott Laboratories., Michael Verdier Cory, Jr., Reynolds, Cory & Rikard, Jackson, MS, for American Intern. Chemical, Inc., Bradley S. Wolff (argued), Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, GA, Richard Lee Jones, Robert L. Gibbs, Brunini, Gratham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS, for Aventis Pasteur, Inc. and Pasteur Merieux Connaght, Inc., J. Leray McNamara, Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, Ridgeland, MS, for B.F. Ascher & Co., Inc., Donna Brown Jacobs, Lee Davis Thames, Joseph Kyle Fulcher, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, for Baxter Intern., Inc., Gerald Zingone, Thelen, Reid & Priest, Washington, DC, for Bioport Corp., Inc., William F. Goodman, III, Mildred M. Morris, Susan Latham Steffey, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, for Merck & Co., Inc., William N. Reed, Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Jackson, MS, for Dolder., Deborah A. Moeller (argued), Jane J. Bartley, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, David W. Clark, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Jackson, MS, for Eli Lilly & Co., Ross F. Bass, Jr., Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, Barclay A. Manley, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, Marcy Hogan Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TX, for Smithkline Beecham Corp., Chris J. Walker, Rachel L. Wilson (argued), Markow, Walker & Reeves, Ridgeland, MS, for Stone, Gulf Coast Pediatric Clinic, Court, Dawkins, Lawson, Stretch, Owen and Children's Medical Group., Jesse Lee Howell, III, Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, Ridgeland, MS, for Byron's Discount Drugs., Luke M. Dove, Dove & Chill, Jackson, MS, for Sartin's Discount Drugs, Inc., Thomas M. Louis (argued), Wells, Marble & Hurst, Jackson, MS, for Village Pharmacy.