Lilly Seeks Summary Judgment in Prozac Suicide Case

SEATTLE - Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac, is seeking summary judgment in a case involving a Washington police officer who allegedly killed himself after using the antidepressant. Lilly contends the man stopped taking its version of the drug 87 days before he committed suicide. Laisure-Radke v. Barr Laboratories Inc., et al. No. CV03-3654P (W.D. Wash.).

In its March 23 motion for summary judgment, Lilly argues that Yvonne A'Rae Laisure-Radke cannot prove that its version of Prozac caused her husband's suicide because it had been effectively eliminated from his system and could not have exerted any effect on him at …