Transnational Mass Torts: Lawyer Opposes Nigerian Settlement with Pfizer
The AP story is here. The American Constitution Society reports the following on the case:
WestHaven lawyer Richard Altschuler has gone to federal court toblock a $75 million Nigerian court settlement between Pfizer and the Nigeriangovernment involving a controversial drug study the pharmaceutical companyconducted on Nigerian children during a 1996 meningitis outbreak. During thecourse of the study, 11 children died and others were paralyzed and blinded.Altschuler, who represents 58 alleged victims in a multi-billion dollar case inU.S. court, argues that the settlement proposed in Nigerian court interfereswith his case and would give millions to the Nigerian government whileproviding relatively little for the victims.
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