TY - JOUR T1 - Causality and collateral estoppel: process and content of recent SSRI litigation JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 377 LP - 382 VL - 31 IS - 3 AU - PD Whitehead Y1 - 2003/09/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/31/3/377.abstract N2 - 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. ER -