This post has absolutely nothing to do with drug and device law, but we just spied this ditty, and we’re sure that it’s going to ricochet around the web, so we wanted to share it with our readers.
Professor Gabriel Chin has posted on SSRN a scholarly article explaining that, because John McCain was born
This breaking news post is from Bexis only, as Wyeth – a major HRT defendant – is a big Herrmann client.
The New Jersey state court judge in Middlesex County has just issued a couple of good rulings. In Bailey v. Wyeth the court granted summary judgment against the plaintiff’s claims for
failure to warn,
As you well know, this blog doesn’t pretend to be a newspaper.
If you want news, read the Times.
If you want — well, defense-side rants interspersed with legal citations and weak attempts at humor– visit Beck and Herrmann.
But there’s one pharmaceutical news story — the proposed suicidality warnings on anti-seizure medications —
Wait!
Bexis is already in Philadelphia.
But Herrmann’s joining him on Monday and Tuesday, July 14 and 15, so that your dynamic blogging duo can co-chair the American Conference Institute’s Drug and Device Preemption Conference.
Since we’re co-chairing the conference, we made sure the agenda covered all of the topics dear to our hearts —
Our post last month about Breen v. Synthes-Stratec, Inc., 947 A.2d 383 (Conn. App. 2008), got us thinking (always dangerous) about medical devices and the learned intermediary rule. Is there any valid reason why the learned intermediary rule shouldn’t apply to medical devices where it also applies to prescription drugs?
Well, we thought about
Just so you know who to blame, this post is by Bexis only. Herrmann’s staying well away due to his representation of Wyeth.
The much-touted/much-reviled (depending upon which side of the “v” one resides) $27.12 million punitive damage award in the In re Prempro hormone replacement ltherapy litigation has been vacated. The judge admitted that
The question the other day on the PLAC listserv was, “Plaintiffs claim that our overseas client must produce English translations of all documents that are in its home country’s language. Are they entitled to this?”
That prompted well over a dozen “me too” messages – more than we’ve ever seen in response to that kind
What do we hate more — cases that go against us, or 291-page decisions that we’re compelled to read to stay abreast of our field and to share with you in blog posts?
Today, it doesn’t matter. We get the worst of both worlds.
When the Supreme Court decided Bridge v. Phoenix Bond & Indemnity
This guest post was written by Sean Costello. Mr. Costello is an associate resident in the Atlanta office of Jones Day. This post is entirely his work. It, of course, represents only his views, and not the views of his clients or firm:
“Less is more” works well as a “motto” for minimalist
E-Commerce Law hosts this week’s Blawg Review.
To Celebrate Independence Day, Jonathan Frieden (who hosts E-Commerce Law) selected one “Star” blog from each of the fifty states and described those stars in their order of admission into the Union.
(They’re partying with Bexis in Philadelphia; Illinois is feeling quite