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Precedent-Setting Case Decided in Favor of Estate of Former Steeler Mike Webster

Business Editors/Sports Editors/Legal Editors

BALTIMORE----Cy Smith of Zuckerman
Spaeder LLP, and Bob Fitzsimmons, attorneys representing the estate of
former Steeler great Mike Webster, are available for interviews and
talk programs about the recently decided case in favor of Webster's
estate.

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Trial Challenging the FDA's Pharmaceutical Importation Ban to Begin May 2nd

The court cited "overwhelming evidence" that Mike Webster had
become "totally and permanently disabled " by 1991, the end of his
football career, as a direct result of playing center for 245 games.

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Holderman , of the United States District Court of the Northern District of
Illinois, set a trial date of May 2, 2005 to decide if Genendo
Pharmaceutical, NV, can import the drug Lipitor, a Pfizer product, on a
wholesale level from other countries.
The additional benefits to Webster's estate and family are
expected to be well over $1 million.

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In a case
which could dramatically lower the cost of many name-brand patent protected
drugs to Americans by as much as twenty-five percent, Judge James F.

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The 'Boy in the Box' was found dead, outdoors, in a cardboard box, in Philadelphia in 1957.

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Mike Webster played from 1974 until 1990, led the Steelers to four
Super Bowl wins in the 1970s, was All -Pro nine times, and was inducted
into the Hall of Fame in 1997 and the NFL's all-time team in 2000 .

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He
died in 2002.

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To arrange interviews, please call Amy Elias at 410-243-3790.

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03 C 6495 is scheduled for trial on
5/2/05 and is certain to have a significant impact on the pharmaceutical
industry."

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Pfizer markets Lipitor at a substantial
discount in other countries.

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CHICAGO, Illinois, States and other
organizations have been searching for ways to lower drugs costs.

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John Gallagher, stated "We have struggled to work with the FDA to find a
compromise, beyond that required by law, to import these drugs whose
authenticity and quality is not contested; the FDA offers no solutions, only
an FDA policy that controverts both statute and regulation, and whose
transparent goal is to allow the continued overcharge of sick Americans to
the direct benefit of Big Pharma.

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The office of the Minnesota Attorney General indicated that in
2001, the pharmaceutical industry was 5 1/2 times more profitable than the
average of all other Fortune 500 companies.

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On Tuesday, April 26, a Baltimore federal court judge ruled that
the NFL 's pension plan had wrongfully denied pension benefits for
Webster's disability caused by repetitive concussions and multiple
head injuries playing football for the Steelers and Kansas City
Chiefs .

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Genendo's corporate counsel, Mr.

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Genendo is challenging the FDA's enforcement
policy which, up to now, has enabled pharmaceutical companies to maintain
worldwide discriminatory pricing schemes that force Americans to pay a
substantially higher amount for their prescriptions then the citizens of
other countries.