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172204P.pdf 01/10/2019 Marc Mancini v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceu
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-2204
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Products liability. In action against the manufacturers of
Mirapex, a dopamine agonist used to treat Parkinson's disease, alleging
the should be liable for substantial gambling and other financial losses
that resulted from obsessive compulsive behavior, a side effect of taking
Mirapex, the district court did not err in determining the claims were
barred by the applicable two-year California statute of limitations;
argument that the statute was tolled because plaintiff was insane when the
cause of action accrued rejected on this record; argument that each
ingestion of the drug gave rise to a separate and distinct claim under the
continuing violations doctrine rejected; the district court did not abuse
its discretion in denying plaintiff's motion to stay defendants' motion
for summary judgment pending further discovery.