{"id":3802,"date":"2017-11-15T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2017-11-11T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T15:10:28","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-prevents-state-resident-plaintiffs-joining-pharmaceutical-defect-plavix-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/u-s-supreme-court-prevents-state-resident-plaintiffs-joining-pharmaceutical-defect-plavix-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Prevents Out-of-State Resident Plaintiffs from Joining Pharmaceutical Defect (Plavix) Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has prevented 592 nonresidents from joining 86 California residents in suing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bms.com\/\">Bristol-Myers Squibb<\/a> in California state court for personal injury allegedly caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drugs.com\/plavix.html\">Plavix<\/a>, a blood thinner. At the state level, the California Supreme Court concluded that the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment did not bar the out-of-state residents from suing the corporation, BMS, in state court.<\/p>\n<p>In the vigorous dissent written by Justice Sonia M. Sotomayor, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.\u2019s majority opinion explained, \u201cThe nonresidents were not prescribed Plavix in California, did not purchase Plavix in California, did not ingest Plavix in California and were not injured by Plavix in California. <\/p>\n<p>The mere fact that other plaintiffs were prescribed, obtained and ingested Plavix in California \u2013 and allegedly sustained the same injuries as did the nonresidents \u2013 does not allow the state to assert specific jurisdiction over the nonresidents\u2019 claims.\u201d<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/u-s-supreme-court-prevents-state-resident-plaintiffs-joining-pharmaceutical-defect-plavix-lawsuit\/#more-3802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has prevented 592 nonresidents from joining 86 California residents in suing Bristol-Myers Squibb in California state court for personal injury allegedly caused by Plavix, a blood thinner. At the state level, the California Supreme Court concluded that the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment did not bar the out-of-state residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,8,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-civil-procedure","category-medical-device-liability","category-pharmaceutical-defect-cases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Supreme Court Prevents Out-of-State Resident Plaintiffs from Joining Pharmaceutical Defect (Plavix) Lawsuit &#8212; 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