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Litigator of the (Past) Week: SCOTUS Unanimously Preserves Access to Abortion Pill Mifepristone

Jessica Ellsworth of Hogan Lovells represented pharmaceutical company Danco Laboratories throughout a court challenge to the way the FDA regulated the use of mifepristone.
9 minute read

Law.com

Over $1.3M Settlement Reached Over 'Life-Altering' False Drug Testing Results

Riley's complaint, filed in March 2021, alleged that she believes that around 30% of the drug tests performed by Avertest are inaccurate, which is in sharp contrast to the company's claim that it provides forensically defensible results with a 97% accuracy rate.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Antitrust Suit Claims Pharmaceutical Company Hoarded Vascepa's Active Ingredient to Freeze Out Generic Competitors

"For over a decade, Amarin has engaged in a calculated anticompetitive scheme, whereby it executed exclusive, or de facto exclusive, agreements with suppliers to lock up the supply of Vascepa's active pharmaceutical ingredient, icosapent ethyl, in order to freeze its generic competitors out of the market and deprive consumers of affordable medication," the complaint said.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Investment Fund Sues Biopharma Company, Claiming $9 Million Unpaid in Contract Breach

An investment fund is seeking an order requiring Dendreon to perform its obligations under the agreement and pay the $9 million plus accrued interest, along with attorney fees and costs.
3 minute read

Law.com

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms $800K Judgment Against Psychiatrist for Vyvanse-Induced Stroke

"All of that said, even if F.D.'s differential diagnosis was thus unreliable and should not have been admitted, other substantial evidence at trial tended to prove that K.P.'s death was caused by Vyvanse use. This Court will not reverse a judgment unless the circuit court's error in admitting expert testimony 'materially affected the merits of the action,'" Missouri Court of Appeals Judge Cristian M. Stevens.
5 minute read

The Recorder

43 States Reach $700 Million Settlement With J&J in Talc Product Lawsuits

A $700 million settlement reached by Johnson & Johnson with attorneys general from 43 states prohibits the pharmaceutical company from manufacturing, selling or distributing its talcum-based body powder products, which are known to increase the risk for cancer, in the United States.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

'We Just Focused on the Factual Record': Kirkland & Ellis Successfully Defends Pharmaceutical Companies in Lipitor MDL

Counsel for Sun Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy, Devora W. Allon, a partner with Kirkland & Ellis in New York, said that the plaintiffs hired a regulatory expert to say that the Food and Drug Administration moves as fast as it can and that if there had been an earlier target date, the FDA would have met that date.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ozempic MDL Reassigned to Pennsylvania Judge Karen Marston

On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation reassigned the docket to U.S. District Judge Karen Marston, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after the initial judge, U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter, 75, died on May 17.
3 minute read

Law.com

Novo Nordisk Files Multiple Complaints Alleging Trademark Infringement, False Advertising Across U.S.

"We will continue to pursue legal action against those who provide potentially unsafe and ineffective compounded 'semaglutide' products and knowingly deceive patients who are seeking treatment, thereby eroding public trust in the safety of FDA-approved medicines," said Doug Langa, executive vice president, North America operations and president of Novo Nordisk.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A Defense Verdict in Cook County in the First Zantac Trial

Defense lawyers for GSK, led by Tarek Ismail of Goldman Ismail, and Boehringer Ingelheim, led by Andrew Bayman of King & Spalding, won a defense verdict from state court jurors who rejected a claim that the discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused an Illinois woman's colon cancer.
7 minute read

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