Herbalife Says Stroke Claim Can't Survive Without 'Ruling In' Ephedra

NEW YORK - Ruling out just some of the potential causes of a plaintiff's stroke does not satisfy specific causation requirements when a court has prohibited an expert from "ruling in" the one product that the plaintiff says caused his injury, an ephedra defendant argued recently in a motion for summary judgment. Singh, et al. v. Herbalife International of America Inc., No. 06-14 (S.D. N.Y.).

Herbalife International claims in its July 27 motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that it is entitled to summary judgment because a recent decision has already precluded …