United States Sixth Circuit

In a multi-district product liability case, summary judgment for defendants, a pharmaceutical company that marketed and distributed a diet-drug and its affiliates, is affirmed over claims that the district court: 1) failed to conduct a meaningful choice-of-law analysis; 2) erred in partly excluding the testimony of an expert; and 3) erred in granting summary judgment to defendants on various common law and statutory claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2006
• Published 05/11/2006

Judges

• Before:  COLE, GILMAN, and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul M. De Marco, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants.  David M. Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Paul M. De Marco, Stanley M. Chesley, Louise M. Roselle, Jean M. Geoppinger, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellants.  David M. Bernick, Christopher M.R. Turner, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois, Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.