Reply #9: Update: Nigeria Case Against Pfizer Delayed

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6682185,00.html">Nigeria Case Against Pfizer Delayed

Monday June 4, 2007 12:31 PM

By SALISU RABIU

Associated Press Writer

KANO, Nigeria (AP) - Lawyers for a northern Nigeria state
seeking $2 billion in damages from Pfizer Inc. over allegations
of wrongdoing in a decades-old drug study failed to show up
for the first court proceedings Monday and the case was
postponed.

The judge hearing the case launched by the northern state of
Kano said criminal proceedings lodged against company officers
now would begin July 4, while a related civil case seeking the
monetary damages would begin July 9.

Officials in northern Nigeria's Kano state and company officials
weren't immediately available for comment. Nigeria's government
is in disarray after the May 29 inauguration of new governors,
state assemblies and elected federal officers, including a new
president.

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