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IN RE SABIN ORAL POLIO VACCINE PROD. LIABILITY LIT.

Master File No. MDL 780.

743 F.Supp. 410 (1990)

In re SABIN ORAL POLIO VACCINE PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

July 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc Moller, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, and Stanley Kops, Adler & Kops, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Rupert Mitsch and Julie Zatz, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Ann Wion, Assoc. Chief Counsel For Drugs and Biologics, Food and Drug Admin., Rockville, Md., of counsel), for defendant.

OPINION

MOTZ, District Judge.

Seven cases have been transferred to this District pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407 (1988) for resolution of their common factual and legal issues relating to the question of liability.1 Plaintiffs are victims of poliomyelitis, having contracted the disease as a result of the administration of Orimune, an oral polio vaccine manufactured by Lederle Laboratories, Inc. Four of the plaintiffs took the...

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