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PAYTON v. ABBOTT LABS

386 Mass. 540 (1982)

437 N.E.2d 171

BRENDA PAYTON & others vs. ABBOTT LABS & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 22, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Fine, Jeanne Baker & Stephanie A. Cleverdon (David Rosenberg with them) for the plaintiffs.

Marshall Simonds (David W. Rosenberg, Robert G. Bone, Kenneth A. Cohen, Joan Milstein, Mary Morrissey Sullivan & Joseph J. Leghorn with him) for the defendants.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

This case comes before the court on certification from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts of four principal and several subsidiary questions involving Massachusetts tort law. See S.J.C. Rule 1:03, § 1, as amended, 382 Mass. 700 (1981).

The plaintiffs in the civil action in which these questions are certified seek redress for injuries allegedly caused by the prescription...

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