Plaintiffs Seek Sanctions for Sanofi Over Funding Disclosure Move
Plaintiffs attorneys suing over the Sanofi breast cancer drug Taxotere say the company's lawyers should be penalized for making an "unseemly attempt" to reveal funding arrangements.
May 31, 2017 at 08:13 PM
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Plaintiffs attorneys suing over the breast cancer drug Taxotere want a federal judge to sanction defendant Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC for filing a motion filled with “unfounded accusations” that are “indecent and vexatious” in an attempt to get information on outside funding for the litigation.
The motion, they wrote in a Tuesday filing, is “an unfounded and unseemly attempt to smear both breast cancer survivors” and their lawyers “based entirely on innuendo that is pure McCarthyism.” “Sanofi has not even a scintilla of evidence that plaintiffs' attorneys are giving up control of their clients' cases to anyone; they are not,” wrote co-lead plaintiffs attorneys Christopher Coffin, a partner at Pendley Baudin & Coffin in New Orleans, and Karen Barth Menzies, a Los Angeles partner at Girard Gibbs.
The pushback comes amid a growing number of requests for transparency in third-party financing of mass tort litigation. Similar requests have been made in cases involving blood thinner Xarelto and Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.
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