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Article: Milberg Weiss Announces Important Decision Protecting Foreign Victims Rights To Sue American Companies.
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- October 13, 2003
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Second Circuit United States Court of Appeals has vacated a lower court's dismissal of the complaint in Abdullahi v. Pfizer, it was announced today. This is a case in which leading law firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, represents Nigerian children upon whom Pfizer conducted medical experimentation without seeking informed consent. During an epidemic of meningitis in Kano, Nigeria, our clients had gone to the local government hospital to seek medical care, but were unwittingly enrolled in Pfizer's clinical trial of Trovan. Pfizer's trial was designed to win FDA approval to sell this antibiotic in the lucrative U.S. ...