United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff failed to establish that defendant's allegedly inadequate warnings concerning Zoloft contributed to her husband's suicide. Because the doctor did not read the warning label or rely on information provided by defendant's detail men before prescribing the drug, the adequacy of these warnings is irrelevant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/10/2003
• Decided 02/09/2004
• Published 02/09/2004

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: WALLACE, RYMER, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for the amicus., Robert D. Kamenshine, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for amicus United States Food & Drug Administration.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jessica R. Dart,Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee., Pierce O'Donnell, O'Donnell & Shaeffer, Los Angeles, CA;  Malcolm E. Wheeler, Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, Denver, CO, for the defendant-appellee/cross-appellant.