Plaintiff in Nation's First Oxycontin-Based Lawsuit Withdraws Complaint Weeks Before Trial




COLUMBUS, Ohio-The plaintiffs involved in the nation's first Oxycontin-based products liability lawsuit voluntarily dismissed their claims with prejudice weeks before the case was scheduled to go to trial. Burton v. Purdue Pharma, et al., No. 01-CV-349 (S.D. Ohio).

An Oct. 2 order signed by U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel granted the plaintiff's motion to dismiss the claims, which included failure to warn and fraudulent misrepresentation.

'We believe that their decision to quit at this stage-without any settlement-and to forever abandon their chance of proving their case against Purdue speaks volumes about the lack of merit of these kinds of …






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