Va. Court Grants Summary Judgment to Purdue Pharma Defendants

BIG STONE GAP, Va. - A federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of Purdue Pharma on Aug. 19 after concluding that a Virginia man had not shown evidence of injury from OxyContin. Ewing v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al., No. 2:02CV00150 (W.D. Va.).

Judge James P. Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia issued the unpublished opinion in the case brought by Charles G. Ewing.

Ewing complained that he was prescribed OxyContin in October 1999 and that he began to feel ill effects within one or two months. Ewing testified that the painkiller 'made …