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National Law Journal

Anticipation Builds for Huge SCOTUS Ruling on Forum-Shopping

Civil litigators and corporate counsel can almost taste victory in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California, seen as the term's most important case on jurisdiction.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Senate Poised to Pass New Limits on Opioid Prescriptions

The Republican-led Senate was poised to pass a package of more than a dozen bills aimed at curbing heroin and opioid abuse, including one that would set new limits on prescribing to minors.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Lawyer's Heart Problem Derails Low-Testosterone Bellwether Trial

The first bellwether trial over a prescription medication used to treat low testosterone has ended in a mistrial after lead plaintiffs' attorney Christopher Seeger suffered from heart problems.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Unprecedented Opana Decision May Not Extend to Other Opioids, Attorneys Say

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. to remove Opana ER, its extended-release version of oxymorphone hydrochloride, from the market after the agency found a likelihood of abuse by crushing up and injecting the pills.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

Louisiana Federal Jury Hands Up Defense Verdict in Xarelto Trial

On Monday, a jury came out with a defense verdict in the second trial over the blood thinner. That's about a month after Johnson & Johnson and Bayer won the first bellwether trial over Xarelto.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Liability Phase in Cephalon Reverse-Payment Trial to Be Bifurcated

The upcoming antitrust trial over Cephalon's alleged reverse-payment settlements with generic drug companies needs to be bifurcated at the liability phase, a federal judge has ruled.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ACC Joins Amicus Brief on Case That May 'Undermine' In-House Counsel's Ability to Function

For close to a decade, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get its hands on documents from drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., resulting in a yearslong dispute over what documents and communications are protected when an in-house counsel is involved.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Opioid Distributors, Pharmacies Argue Against Tribal Jurisdiction

In what the Cherokee Nation described as "an attack on the very sovereignty of our nation," several pharmaceutical distributors and retail pharmacies have asked a federal judge to prevent a lawsuit against them over the opioid addiction epidemic from proceeding in tribal court.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Doctor Owes $1.87M for Bad Faith Employment Suit, Judge Rules

A federal judge has ordered a Pennsylvania doctor and her husband to pay Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. $1.87 million in fee sanctions and counterclaim damages in a discrimination lawsuit that was deemed to have been lodged in bad faith.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Doctor's Defense for Overprescribing Drugs: Blame Big Pharma

A Long Island physician is using a novel defense against federal prosecutors accusing him of overprescribing narcotic painkillers: The drug manufacturers are responsible.
4 minute read

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