Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-04-25 07:03:32+00
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                        For the Fifth Circuit

                     ___________________________

                             No. 98-20109
                     ___________________________

 CELIA SCHWARZ, Individually as next friend of Erica Greenstein
     and Jared Greenstein, Minors; ERICA GREENSTEIN; SEYMOUR
                   GREENSTEIN; JARED GREENSTEIN

                                             Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                               VERSUS

                     BLOCK DRUG CO. INC.; ET AL,

                                                        Defendants,

                BLOCK DRUG CO. INC.; BLOCK DRUG CORP.

                                              Defendants-Appellees.

         ___________________________________________________

            Appeal from the United States District Court
                 for the Southern District of Texas
                           (H-96-CV-3055)
         ___________________________________________________

                           April 15, 1999

Before GARWOOD, DAVIS, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

     After reviewing the record and considering the briefs and

arguments of counsel, we conclude that the Plaintiffs produced no

evidence that the Defendant drug manufacturer knew or should have

known its product was likely to cause brain tumors in children.

Under comment K of the Restatement of Torts (Second) § 402A, a drug

manufacturer is responsible in damages only if it failed to warn of

     *
      Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.
a defect of which it knew or should have known.      Therefore, the

district court correctly granted summary judgment.

AFFIRMED.

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