%0 Journal Article %A PD Whitehead %T Causality and collateral estoppel: process and content of recent SSRI litigation %D 2003 %J Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online %P 377-382 %V 31 %N 3 %X In Tobin v. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming found that the medication Paxil "can cause some individuals to commit homicide and/or suicide," and that it was a legal cause of the deaths in this case. A motion was recently put before the United States District Court for the District of Utah to adopt the findings of the Tobin case--via the application of collateral estoppel--to a case involving an individual's suicide while prescribed Paxil. This article summarizes these two cases, as reflected in court documents, and comments on limitations of common causality assertions. %U https://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/31/3/377.full.pdf