Shoring up the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit enforced the letter of the settlement agreement between Wyeth and the people who took the diet-drug cocktail commonly called Fen-Phen.

The appeals court on Monday affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a suit filed by Carmen Cauthen and her husband alleging that she developed primary pulmonary hypertension, called PPH, as a result of taking the drugs.

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