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Today’s case is not about drugs or medical devices.  It is about popcorn, a perfect prompt (or as good as ours ever get) for a rant about movies.  We are working our way through the Oscar nominees, in anticipation of the upcoming Academy Awards.  (Pre-apocalypse, we hosted an annual Oscar party, featuring good food, good

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We’ve written several posts about ridiculous absolute liability theories seeking to hold drug manufacturers liable simply for making an FDA approved prescription drug.  Wilkins v. Genzyme Corp., 2022 WL 4237528 (D. Mass. Sept. 14, 2022), is an even stranger claim, with the plaintiff seeking to hold the defendant liable for not manufacturing a prescription drug.  Fortunately, in Wilkins, those claims (several theories alleging essentially the same thing) did not state a claim.Continue Reading No Liability for Not Manufacturing a Product

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Purported class actions on behalf of people who haven’t really suffered any injury are one of the banes of our existence.  While not limited to California or courts in the Ninth Circuit, some of the worst (most of which we haven’t covered because they are adverse non-drug/device cases) decisions certainly hail from there.

Recently, however

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Isn’t enough for standing that is.  And, likely not enough for plaintiff’s case to survive, but that question was left for another day.  We’ve done a few posts on “slack fill” which is defined by the FDA as the difference between the capacity of a container and the volume of product inside.  Slack fill lawsuits

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We continue to scratch our heads over consumer class actions seeking monetary compensation when the customers received exactly what they paid for.  We see them from time to time in the pharmaceutical space, where patients claim monetary compensation even though the prescription drugs they used worked like they were supposed to with no adverse reactions. 

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Today’s case is not our usual fare.  But we’ve never seen this kind of appeal succeed before, so we’re going to spare a few minutes for something a little odd but important.

First of all, the patient and the medical device manufacturer are on the same side – they’re both plaintiffs in Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.

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We sometimes sit around trading stories about the dumbest lawsuits we have ever seen. Our personal favorite is a class action that the Drug and Device Law Spouse defended years ago seeking damages against a national shipping company because items sent by “Second Day Air” did not always go in an airplane.  The packages arrived