SCHEDIN v. ORTHO-McNEIL-JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

Civil No. 08-5743 (JRT).

776 F.Supp.2d 907 (2011)

John SCHEDIN, Plaintiff, v. ORTHO-McNEIL-JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota.

March 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mikal C. Watts, Watts Law Firm, LLP, Corpus Christi, TX; Ronald S. Goldser, Zimmerman Reed, PLLP, Minneapolis, MN; and Lewis J. Saul, Lewis Saul & Associates, Portland, ME, for plaintiff Schedin.

John Dames and William V. Essig, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Chicago, IL; William H. Robinson, Jr., LeClair Ryan, Washington, DC; and Tracy J. Van Steenburgh, Nilan Johnson Lewis, PA, Minneapolis, MN, for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR JUDGMENT AS A MATTER OF LAW

JOHN R. TUNHEIM, District Judge.

Plaintiff John Schedin brought claims against defendant Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ortho-McNeil") for failure to warn about certain risks he was taking in using its drug, Levaquin, namely tendon rupture. His case was the first case tried in a larger multi-district litigation involving numerous plaintiffs. The jury found...

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