SCOTUS Denies Appeal From Biglaw Partner’s Widow in Paxil Drug Labeling Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal of a ruling against the widow of a Reed Smith partner who blamed the labeling of the antidepressant Paxil for her husband’s suicide.
The court denied the appeal petition from plaintiff Wendy Dolin in her lawsuit against pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, reports the Cook County Record.
“Dolin had sued GSK over the death of her husband, Stewart Dolin, who had committed suicide in a downtown Chicago transit station in 2010,” writes the Record‘s Jonathan Bilyk. “Dolin alleged her husband’s suicidal behavior was caused by the drug paroxetine, the generic version of GSK’s Paxil. The warning label for paroxetine is identical to the label for Paxil.”
Read the Cook County Record report.
