Hundreds of products liability suits over the acne drug Accutane face dismissal in the wake of an April 2 decision that the warnings provided to prescribing doctors after April 10, 2002, were adequate as a matter of law.
The ruling by Judge Nelson Johnson, who presides over the more than 6,700 Accutane cases consolidated on a multicounty litigation docket in Atlantic County, will knock out cases by New Jersey plaintiffs who started taking the medication after that date.
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