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Causality and collateral estoppel:
process and content of recent SSRI
litigation.
Whitehead PD.
Forensic Acute
Unit, Utah State Hospital, Provo, UT, USA. pwhitehe@utah.gov
In
Tobin v. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals a jury in the U.S. District
Court for the District of Wyoming found that the medication Paxil "can
cause some individuals to commit homicide and/or suicide," and that it
was a legal cause of the deaths in this case. A motion was recently put
before the United States District Court for the District of Utah to
adopt the findings of the Tobin case--via the application of collateral
estoppel--to a case involving an individual's suicide while prescribed
Paxil. This article summarizes these two cases, as reflected in court
documents, and comments on limitations of common causality
assertions.
Publication Types:
PMID: 14584540 [PubMed - indexed for
MEDLINE]
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