Since honoring the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Nexus Pharms., Inc. v. Cent. Admixture Pharm. Servs., Inc., 48 F.4th 1040 (9th Cir. 2022), as being our third best decision of 2022, we have been waiting for (and expecting) a court to apply it to a food labeling case. And now one has –
California Preemption
The Expanding Breadth Of Nexus
By Eric Alexander on

Back in 2020, we noted the possible broad implications of a Buckman preemption decision in a somewhat unusual economic loss case that turned on whether a compounded pharmaceutical needed FDA approval through an NDA. When that case, Nexus Pharms., Inc. v. Cent. Admixture Pharm. Servs., Inc., 48 F.4th 1040 (9th Cir. 2022), was affirmed…