United States Fifth Circuit

A manufacturer of Thimerosal, a preservative used in childhood vaccines, should not be considered a "vaccine manufacturer" as that term is understood within the context of the National Childhood Vaccine Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/27/2005
• Published 04/27/2005

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nathaniel Austin Bosio, Dogan & Wilkinson, Pascagoula, MS, Charles S. Siegel (argued), Susan L. Hays, Waters & Kraus, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Richard L. Josephson, Baker Botts, Houston, TX, for Abbott Laboratories, Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc., George Q. Evans, Eugene Randolph Naylor, Gaye Nell Currie, Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Christy D. Jones, Anita K. Modak-Truran, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, Richard William Mark, Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, New York City, for American Home Products Corp., Wyeth-Ayerst, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Wyeth Lederle, Wyeth Lederle Vaccines and Lederle Laboratories., Bradley S. Wolff, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, GA, Richard Lee Jones, Robert L. Gibbs, Brunini, Gratham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS, for Aventis Pasteur, Inc., Donna Brown Jacobs, Lee Davis Thames, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, MS, Joseph Kyle Fulcher, Baker Donelson Bearman, Jackson, MS, for Baxter Intern., Inc., Deborah A. Moeller (argued), James J. Bartley, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Eli Lilly & Co., Roy C. Williams, Williams, Heidelberg, Steinberger & McElhaney, Pascagoula, MS, for GDL Intern., Inc., Ross F. Bass, Jr., Tana Nicole Vollendorf, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, Sessions Ault Hootsell, III, John P. Manard, Jr., Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, LA, Barclay A. Manley, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, TX, Marcy Hogan Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, TX, for GlaxoSmithKline., Mildred M. Morris, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, MS, for Merck & Co., Inc., Neville Henry Boschert, John David Shaw, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, David Michael Macdonald, Amelia Susan Harris, David C. Colley, Macdonald Devin, Dallas, TX, for Sigma Aldrich, Inc., Christopher W. Bayuk, Bayuk & Associates, San Diego, CA, for Spectrum Chemical Mfg. Corp., Chris J. Walker, Markow, Walker & Reeves, Ridgeland, MS, for Ferguson and Jones., Stephen P. Kruger, Page, Kruger & Holland, Jackson, MS, for River Oaks Hosp.