No Class Certification in RICO case against Pfizer.
In 2004 plaintiffs lawyers were in court seeking to represent a nationwide class of consumers and third-party payers against Warner-Lambert, predecessor to Pfizer. They made RICO and fraud claims, demanding more than $4 billion in damages. After nearly five years of trying, a class has yet to be certified. On May 13, 2009, Boston federal district court Judge Patti Saris denied class certification for a second time.
Saris first ruled against class certification back in August 2007, citing the plaintiffs' failure to satisfy commonality, numerosity, typicality and predominance requirements. She gave them another shot, but in her latest denial ruled that class counsel still had not shown that common questions would predominate over issues affecting individual plaintiffs.
