Preparations for first federal Vioxx trial underway in Houston

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Preparations for first federal Vioxx trial underway in Houston

September 29, 2005 08:09:00 pm

[JURIST] Trial preparations commenced Thursday in federal court in Houston for the first federal civil trial involving the Merck-manufactured Vioxx [JURIST news archive] painkiller. Earlier this month, New Orleans-based US District Judge Eldon Fallon, charged with managing the hundreds of federal civil suits involving the withdrawn prescription drug, decided to move the trial from New Orleans to Houston [JURIST report] in the wake of Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive]. The trial is scheduled to begin November 28. AP has more.

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