If you want to insult and annoy someone, consider suing them under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. section 1964. That law is charmingly known as RICO, in an allusion to the big bad in the great 1931 gangster film Little Caesar, played by Edward G. Robinson at his most
A lot of time is spent in litigation on discovery. As tedious and non-exciting as it often is, cases can be won or lost depending on what happens during discovery. So, it’s not to be taken lightly. When we find ourselves arguing to the court about discovery, however, it is often without being able to
Bexis gave a talk the other day at the Washington Legal Foundation on personal jurisdiction after last term’s United States Supreme Court decisions in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017) (“BMS”), and BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell, 137 S. Ct. 1549 (2017) (“BNSF”). One
With PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. 604 (2011), and Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett, 133 S. Ct. 2466 (2013), preemption arguments in cases involving generic prescription drugs has become a little like shooting fish in a barrel, as our generic preemption scorecard documents. Still, that’s no reason not to praise good results.
For the second time in three years the Pennsylvania legislature has proven itself entirely unable to carry out its most basic function, which is to pass a budget – any budget – which is balanced and otherwise meets constitutional requirements. Instead, it seems bent on distracting the public from its abject failures with empty gestures.
Look what just fell into our lap. Our blogging about the favorable California Risperdal preemption decision last week shook loose from that same case a subsequent denial of reconsideration of a summary judgment motion in favor of the defendant based on preemption. Risperdal and Invega Prod. Liab. Cases, 2017 WL 4479317 (Cal. Super. July
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.
Do as I say, not as I do. A crutch used by parents worldwide to justify their own bad habits while trying to ensure their children don’t repeat them. Technically, it’s being a hypocrite. Sure, parents should strive to set an example through behavior.
Once the Supreme Court’s decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S. Ct. 1773 (2017), definitively determined that non-resident plaintiffs can’t go suing non-resident defendants anywhere they want, attention turned to one of the primary types of forum-shopping gamesmanship that plaintiffs used to trap defendants in their preferred venues.
St. Louis –
In our continuing quest to share worthwhile educational opportunities with our loyal readers, we have a double shameless plug this weekend.
First, some of your favorite Drug and Device Law bloggers will be presenting at Reed Smith’s Philadelphia Life Sciences CLE Day on Thursday, November 2 at Reed Smith’s Philadelphia office. This is a free
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that, under pressure from the Drug and Device Law Rock Climber, we were headed to New York to see the Broadway production of Orwell’s 1984. Publicity surrounding this spectacle focused on audience members fleeing, fainting, and/or vomiting during the torture scene. Incautiously well-fed (Vietnamese/Thai food from a singularly