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McBRIDE v. MERRELL DOW AND PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 81-2639.

540 F.Supp. 1252 (1982)

William G. McBRIDE, Plaintiff, v. MERRELL DOW AND PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 8, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen T. Eaton, Thomas H. Tate, Eaton & Tate, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

H. Thomas Howell, Washington, D. C., for Merrell Dow & Pharmaceuticals; Frederic D. Lamb and Robert Irvini.

Robert X. Perry, Jr., Washington, D. C., for American Association for the Advancement of Science and Gina Bari Kolata.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARRINGTON D. PARKER, District Judge:

Plaintiff in this action claims that he was defamed by an article appearing in Science magazine in October 1980. The article entitled "How Safe is Bendectin?", discussed the plaintiff's involvement in a controversy surrounding a drug called Bendectin. The defendants include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science magazine; the article...

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