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Court Orders Lawyer to Return Documents About an Eli Lilly Drug

Court Orders Lawyer to Return Documents About an Eli Lilly Drug

From the December 20, 2006 issue of the NY Times:

"A federal court in Brooklyn overseeing product liability lawsuits against Eli Lilly’s best-selling drug Zyprexa has ordered the lawyer who provided company documents to The New York Times and other organizations and individuals to return the documents.

The internal Eli Lilly documents and e-mail messages detailed efforts by the drug maker to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, a medication to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as well as to encourage primary care physicians to use it in patients who did not have the disorder. "

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