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The last baseball player to reach a .400 batting average for a season was Ted Williams in 1941.  In a sport that probably keeps more stats than any other, baseball sees records broken and milestones reached all the time.  Some marks, however, appear to be set in stone.  One of these is Ted Williams’s 1941

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This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.

When we say Nebraska, what comes to mind? Cornhusker football? Warren Buffet, the Wizard of Omaha? Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show? Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom? An amazingly haunting album by Bruce Springsteen? As the Jersey Girl blogger on this site, it should be

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And it’s the start of another season of too much eating, drinking, shopping, and socializing. Sometimes it feels like a year’s worth cramped into a little over a month. And, for some of us (OK, me), we’re entering this week still a little groggy and foggy. So, we’ll admit to looking for something fairly straightforward

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Can you recall what you were doing back in March of this year? To be more precise the day before St. Patty’s Day and the day after the Ides. No? Well, apparently the defendants in the Risperdal and Invega Products Liability Cases pending in California state court were celebrating but they forgot to invite us

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We’ve got a copy of the Reply Brief filed by defendant Wyeth in the Wyeth v. Levine case. Here are the highlights as we see them (we’re trying to stay away from the Phenergan or Wyeth specific stuff):

  • Conflict preemption operates by the direct force of the constitution. Express congressional intent to preempt thus is

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We’ve now had a chance to review the new “change being effected” (or “CBE”) rule finalized by the FDA last week. Here are the cites: 73 FR 49603, 2008 WL 3874230. For drugs, the rule is 21 C.F.R. Sec. 314.70(c)(6).
This is what we found.
First, the FDA made one change from the draft rule

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We’ve had an unusual number of plaintiffs’ side blogs link to our Riegel posts over the past several days. While we’re flattered that the other side thinks we’re worth noticing, the traffic from these links has produced quite a few comments trashing either the Supreme Court (especially Justice Scalia), the FDA, or both. We’ve returned