Diethylstilbestrol Litigation, DES Legal Cases

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Law Papers and Theories (in Reference to DES Cases)

• 2018 Pas de préjudice d’établissement pour les femmes exposées au DES ayant eu recours à l’adoption.
• 2017 Degré de certitude de l’imputabilité des troubles de la fertilité ou de la gestation au DES.
• 2017 EU Product Liability Conference.
• 2017 L’action de groupe en justice, pour les victimes du DES, en 2017.
• 2017 Répartition de la dette de réparation des dommages causés par le DES en fonction des parts de marché.
• 2016 Distilbène : Des Victimes sans Preuves et sans Bourreau ?
• 2016 L’action de groupe en matière de produits de santé.
• 2016 Les apports de la jurisprudence récente relative au DES.
• 2016 The Dutch Act on Collective Settlement of Mass Claims (WCAM) Goes Global Again: A Forum Outside the United States to Resolve Mass Claims Disputes Internationally.
• 2016 Toutes les victimes de tous les médicaments doivent être indemnisées.
• 2016 Un précédent manqué : le Distilbène® et les perturbateurs endocriniens. Contribution à une sociologie de l’ignorance.
• 2016 Victimes de médicaments : le fonds d’indemnisation en question.
• 2015 Book : From Individual Redress to the Development of a Collective Cause: The Legal Mobilisation of Victims of DES.
• 2015 “An unconscionable delay”: warnings about DES ignored.
• 2015 A collective legal battle.
• 2015 A consensus against the laboratories.
• 2015 Avancées juridiques du Distilbène : une jurisprudence aléatoire.
• 2015 Different modes of litigation.
• 2015 Civil courts as the preferred choice.
• 2015 Individual constraints on legal action.
• 2015 L’autonomie relative du préjudice d’anxiété en matière de DES.
• 2015 L’expérience judiciaire individuelle et collective des victimes du Distilbène. Des malades rendus visibles par le droit ?
• 2015 Les actions de groupe et le recours collectif.
• 2015 Political impact outside of the courtrooms.
• 2015 Standardising compensation.
• 2015 The weight of expertise.
• 2015 Victimes d’effets indésirables graves de médicaments, état des lieux et recommandations, Version 1.0.
• 2014 DES daughters in France: experts’ points of view on the various genital, uterine and obstetric pathologies, and in utero DES exposure.
• 2013 Distilbene : Historique Juridique 1991-2012.
• 2013 L’expertise médicale pour les victimes du DES.
• 2013 La date de consolidation pour les victimes du DES.
• 2013 La possibilité de changer d’avocat en cours de dossier, de procédure.
• 2013 La preuve à apporter aux documents source et le lien de causalité.
• 2013 Le partenariat Réseau DES France / FNATH.
• 2013 Synthetic Hormone Use in Beef and The Us Regulatory Dilemma.
• 2012 Appellate Division Recognizes Preconception Tort Liability in Favor of DES Granddaughter.
• 2012 Market Share Liability – Did New York Go Too Far?
• 2011 Boston Federal Courthouse holds the first DES Breast Cancer court cases on behalf of 53 DES Daughters.
• 2011 Distilbène®: 20 Years of Legal Battle – DES French lawsuits 1991-2011, DES French court cases history.
• 2011 Pharmaceutical Product Liability.
• 2011 Transgenerational Tort Liability for Epigenetic Disease.
• 2008 Alternative Liability and Deprivation of Remedy: Teaching Old Tort Law New Tricks.
• 2008 The Bitterest Pill.
• 2008 The Dutch Class Action (Financial Settlement) Act (WCAM).
• 2007 Against Genetic Exceptionalism: An Argument in Favor of the Viability of Preconception Genetic Torts.
• 2007 Compensation for Diethylstilbestrol Injury, an opinion.
• 2007 Defendant Indeterminacy: New Wine into Old Skins.
• 2007 (Collective) Settlement effected for damages for victims of diethylstilbestrol (DES).
• 2005 The Challenge to the Individual Causation Requirement in Mass Products Torts.
• 2002 Hormones as growth promoters: the precautionary principle or a political risk assessment?
• 2002 The DES story: long-term consequences of prenatal exposure – Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896–2000.
• 2001 Consequences of diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy; 50 years later still a significant problem – How long should medical records be kept for the DES-exposed?
• 2001 Preconception Tort Law in an Era of Assisted Reproduction: Applying a Nexus Test for Duty.
• 2000 An Examination of the Legal and Ethical Public Policy Consideration Underlying DES Market Share Liability.
• 1999 Book: Causation and Risk in the Law of Torts – Scientific Evidence and Medicinal Product Liability.
• 1999 Concert of action by substantial assistance : what ever happened to unconscious aiding and abetting?
• 1999 Expert witness testimony: a trial judge’s perspective.
• 1998 HIV, Women and Access to Clinical Trials: Tort Liability and Lessons from DES.
• 1996 Judicially Compelled Disclosure of Researcher’s Data: A Judge’s View.
• 1996 Researchers’ Reactions to Compelled Disclosure of Scientific Information.
• 1994 Book: Women and Health Research: Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies (with DES Case Study – DES administration without consent).
• 1994 The Birth of Preconception Torts in Missouri.
• 1993 Adapting Due Process to Match Your Tort: In re DES: A Novel Approach to Jurisdiction.
• 1993 Suspended Judgment – The 1953 Clinical Trial of Diethylstilbestrol During Pregnancy: Could It Have Stopped DES Use?
• 1991 Market Share Liability in DES Cases: The Unwarranted Erosion of Causation in Fact.
• 1991 Medicine and the Law; Diethylstilboestrol third-generation injury claims.
• 1991 Preconception tort liability: recognizing a strict liability cause of action for DES grandchildren.
• 1991 Preconception Tort Liability – The Duty to Third Generations – Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1991 The Causation Requirement: Guardian of Fairness or Obstacle to Justice – Making Sense of a Decade of DES Litigation.
• 1991 The Indeterminate Defendant in Products Liability Litigation and a Suggested Approach for Ohio.
• 1990 Appellate Division Recognizes Preconception Tort Liability in Favor of DES Granddaughter.
• 1990 Diethylstilbestrol, teratogenesis, and carcinogenesis: medical/legal implications of its long-term sequelae, including third generation effects.
• 1990 From Res Ipsa Loquitur to Diethylstilbestrol: The Unidentifiable Tortfeasor in California.
• 1990 Market Share Liability New York Style: Negligence in the Air.
• 1990 Risk Exposure as Injury: Alleviating the Injustice of Tort Causation Rules.
• 1988 The Paradox of Statutes of Limitations in Toxic Substances Litigation.
• 1986 Intra-Industry Joint Liability: Implications for Marketing.
• 1986 The DES Manufacturer Identification Problem: A Florida Public Policy Approach.
• 1985 Clinical findings and legal resolution in sexual assault.
• 1985 Failure to Identify the Defendant in Tort Law: Towards a Legislative Solution.
• 1984 Fear of Disease and Delayed Manifestation of Injuries: A Solution or a Pandora’s Box?
• 1984 The diethylstilbestrol dilemma. Who should pay?
• 1983 DES and the Identification Problem.
• 1983 Book: DES: The Bitter Pill.
• 1983 Generic Product Risks: The Case Against Comment k and for Strict Tort Liability.
• 1983 Identifying and Tracing a Population at Risk : The DESAD Project Experience
• 1983 Proving Causation in Toxic Torts Litigation.
• 1983 Theories of recovery for DES damage: is tort liability the answer?
• 1982 Bichler v. Lilly: Applying Concerted Action to the DES Cases.
• 1982 DES and Emotional Distress: Payton v. Abbott Labs.
• 1982 Book: Multiple Causation in Tort Law: Reflections on the DES Cases.
• 1982 Overcoming the indentification burden in DES litigation: the Market Share Liability theory.
• 1982 Product Liability of the 1980s: Repose Is Not the Destiny of Manufacturers.
• 1982 Toxic Substances Litigation: DES Cases and Identification of Parties.
• 1981 California Expands Tort Liability under the Novel Market Share Theory: Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1981 Compensation for Drug Injury, Product liability all dressed up American style.
• 1981 Book: Daughters at risk: A personal DES history.
• 1981 Book: DES Daughter: The Joyce Bichler story.
• 1981 Book: DES: The Complete Story.
• 1981 Emerging Theories of Proof in Products Liability: Resolving the Problem of Identifying DES Manufacturers.
• 1981 Lilly, DES and the law.
• 1981 Market Share Liability: A New Method of Recovery for D.E.S. Litigants.
• 1981 Book: Market Share Liability: an Answer to the DES Causation Problem.
• 1981 Market Share Liability adopted to Overcome Defendant Identification Requirement in DES Litigation, Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1981 Market Share Liability for DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Injury: A New High Water Mark in Tort Law: Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1981 Sindell v. Abbott Labs: a Market Share Approach to DES Causation.
• 1981 Statutes of limitations: the special problem of DES suits.
• 1981 The Relevancy of Drug Efficacy Evidence in Strict Liability Actions: Needham v. White Laboratories, Inc.
• 1980 Liability in Mass Immunization Programs.
• 1980 Limitation of Collateral Estoppel in Products Liability Litigation, Katz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1980 Manufacturers’ Liability Based on a Market Share Theory: Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1980 Payton v. Abbott Laboratories: an analysis of the Massachusetts DES class action suit.
• 1980 The Liability of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers for Unforeseen Adverse Drug Reactions.
• 1978 DES and a Proposed Theory of Enterprise Liability.
• 1978 Products-Liability Class Suits for Injunctive Relief Under Federal Rule 23.

DES Litigation Videos

• 2019 DES-parents litigation, France.
• 2018 Interview with DES Attorney Michael London.
• 2015 Les obstacles juridiques rencontrés par les victimes du DES.
• 2015 Les victimes du DES et la longue, coûteuse et éprouvante voie contentieuse.
• 2014 L’impact des études DES de 2014 sur le plan judiciaire.
• 2013 Comment la FNATH peut accompagner des victimes du DES sur des questions juridiques.
• 2013 DES Breast Cancer Trial – Settlement reached for the Melnick sisters.
• 2013 DES Breast Cancer Trial – Jury Selected.
• 2013 DES Breast Cancer Trial – Jackie White Interview.
• 2013 DES Breast Cancer Trial – MacCormack Interview.
• 2013 DES Breast Cancer Trial – McCarthy Interviews.
• 2013 Pourquoi le combat judiciaire du distilbène est très particulier.
• 2013 Quels éléments sont vraiment nécessaires pour qu’un dossier DES soit suffisamment étayé ?
• 2011 Le parcours judiciaire des victimes du DES, par Maître Verdier.

DES Legal Cases

• 2017 Cour de Cassation, Chambre civile 1, Pourvoi 16-19047 16-23033.
• 2017 Cour de Cassation, Chambre civile 2, Pourvoi 16-19185.
• 2016 Cour d’Appel de Versailles, n° 14/01313.
• 2016 Cour de Cassation, Chambre civile 1, Pourvoi 14-23909.
• 2015 Cour de cassation, Chambre civile 2, Pourvoi 14-19481.
• 2012 Mazzei v. Abbott Laboratories & Co.
• 2007 Galvin v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2007 Kelley v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2006 Clayton v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2005 Baughn v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2005 Bortell v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2005 Dunseth v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2005 Gassmann v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2005 Reeves v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 2004 Albers v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 2003 Albers v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 2002 Armata v. Abbott Labs. (2).
• 2001 Armata v. Abbott Laboratories. (1).
• 1998 Sutowski v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1997 Kurczi v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1997 Matter of New York County DES Actions.
• 1997 Wetherill v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1997 Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co. (3).
• 1997 Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1997 Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1996 Mevis v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1996 Wetherill v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1995 Braune v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1995 Fraser v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1995 Jellow v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1994 Matter of New York County DES Litigation.
• 1994 Millar-Mintz v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1994 Wind v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1994 Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1993 Ashley v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals.
• 1993 Bilello v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1993 Burgess v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1993 Burgess v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1993 Moll v. Abbott Laboratories. (2).
• 1993 Hartnett v. Schering Corp.
• 1993 Wind v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1992 Bowe v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
• 1992 Grover v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1992 Hibbs v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1992 In Re DES Cases (1971 to 1991).
• 1992 Matter of DES Market Share Litigation, State of New York.
• 1992 Moll v. Abbott Lab. (1).
• 1992 Silveri v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1991 Anderson v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1991 Conley v. Boyle Drug Co. (2).
• 1991 Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co. (3).
• 1991 Matter of New York County DES Litigation.
• 1990 Allen v. Abbott Labs.
• 1990 Anderson v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1990 Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1990 Castrignano v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. (2).
• 1990 Clark v. Abbott Labs. (2).
• 1990 Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1990 Korren v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1990 Krist v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1990 Metauro v. Abbott Labs.
• 1990 Shields v. Eli Lilly & Co. (3).
• 1990 Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1990 Singer v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1990 Sorrells v. Eli Lilly & Company.
• 1989 Besser v. Squibb & Sons.
• 1989 Clark v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1989 Brownfield v. Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital.
• 1989 Hymowitz v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1989 Murphy v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1989 Phillips v. Cooper Laboratories.
• 1989 Wood v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Brown v. Eli Lilly & Co. memorendum.
• 1988 Brown v. Superior Court.
• 1988 Castrignano v. E.R. Squibb & Sons. (1).
• 1988 Enright v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1988 Johnson v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Jolly v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Kortenhaus v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Maloney v. American Pharmaceutical Co.
• 1988 Needham v. White Laboratories, Inc. (2).
• 1988 Shields v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1988 Shields v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1988 Shirkey v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Smith v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1988 Tidler v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1988 Tigue v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
• 1987 George v. Parke-Davis.
• 1987 Greene v. Abbott Labs.
• 1987 Rubel v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1987 Tigue v. Squibb & Sons.
• 1986 Burnside v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1986 Hadden v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1986 Mulcahy v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1985 Anthony v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1985 Bogorad v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1985 Cavanaugh v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1985 Conley v. Boyle Drug Co. (1).
• 1985 Eli Lilly & Co. v. Home Ins Co. (2).
• 1985 Errichiello v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1985 Kaufman  v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1985 Kensinger v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1985 Magallanes v. Superior Court.
• 1985 McCormack v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1985 McMahon v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1985 Murphy v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
• 1985 Pine v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1985 Schaeffer v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1984 Abel v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1984 Collins v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1984 Eli Lilly & Co. v. Home Ins. Co. (1).
• 1984 Fleishman v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1984 Glater v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1984 Kaufman v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1984 Lord v. Parke, Davis & Company.
• 1984 Martin v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1984 Zafft v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1983 Fleishman v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1983 Glater v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1983 Mathis v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1983 McElhaney v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2) memorendum.
• 1983 McElhaney v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1983 Plummer v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1983 Trahan v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc.
• 1983 Wetherill v. University of Chicago : DES administration without consent.
• 1983 Yustick v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1982 Bichler v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2).
• 1982 Dawson v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1982 Helmrich v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1982 Miles Laboratories, Inc. v. Superior Court.
• 1982 Morton v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1982 O’Brien v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1982 Payton v. Abbott Labs. (2) memorendum.
• 1982 Pipon v. Burroughs-Wellcome Co.
• 1982 Renfroe v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1981 Bichler v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1).
• 1981 Diamond v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. (2).
• 1981 Mizell v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1981 Namm v. Charles E. Frosst & Co.
• 1981 Needham v. White Laboratories, Inc. (1).
• 1981 Payton v. Abbott Labs. (1).
• 1981 Ryan v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1981 Tate v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1980 Ferrigno v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1980 Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories.
• 1979 Abel v. Eli Lilly & Company. (1).
• 1979 Diamond v. E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. (1).
• 1979 Lyons v. Premo Pharmaceutical Labs, Inc.
• 1979 Morrissy v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1978 Gray v. United States.
• 1978 McCreery v. Eli Lilly & Co.
• 1978 Mink v. University of Chicago : DES administration without consent.
• 1977 Bichler v. Willing : first DES case.

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