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(Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 1999 1

Per Curiam

NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash- ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________

No. 99391 _________________

ROBIN FREE, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, INC., ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT [April 3, 2000]

PER CURIAM. The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court. JUSTICE O'CONNOR took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.