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The California Supreme Court agreed to hear manufacturers’ arguments to dismiss many lawsuits filed by women who say the now-banned anti-miscarriage drug DES caused them to develop cancer in later life. Justices Stanley Mosk, Joseph Grodin, Cruz Reynoso, Edward Panelli and Malcolm Lucas voted to hear an appeal by DES manufacturers who say the victims were required to sue within a year of the time they first suspected DES was responsible for their illness--rather than a year from the landmark 1980 state Supreme Court ruling defining new grounds for such actions. About 125 DES suits are pending in California.
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