Opinion ID: 1154282
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Oral Argument of Malcolm E. Wheeler for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association

Text: MR. WHEELER: May it please the Court. Your Honors, I'm here on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and as such I don't propose to get into the specific facts of this case and I think it probably will even help the Court's analysis, and certainly my own, if we don't get into a discussion or any bickering between me and the plaintiff's counsel over whether we are, in fact, trying to engraft comment k onto negligence. Because what I view as being the question that's before this Court today is, in fact, much more easily framed than to talk about comment k. It's a policy question. And the question is, does this Court, as the highest court in the state of Idaho, and the court that is ultimately responsible for articulating the common law of this jurisdiction, want to articulate a common law that allows a plaintiff to sue a pharmaceutical manufacturer when that plaintiff has, (1) voluntarily chosen to use a particular vaccine or a drug, as the case may be, having been fully warned of what the possible risks, what the possible consequences and side effects of that drug might be ...