The Supreme Court has apparently been holding the cert petition in the SSRI antidepressant-suicide case of Colacicco v. Apotex until the Court decided Wyeth v. Levine.
The Supreme Court’s docket now shows that the cert petition in Colacicco will be decided at this coming Friday’s conference. Industry would naturally like to see cert denied in Colacicco, but the smart money’s betting on a grant of cert, vacating of the Third Circuit’s decision, and immediate remand to the Third Circuit for reconsideration in light of Levine.
Hat tip to the Life Sciences Legal Update Blog.