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It is a whole lot harder to file documents under seal than it used to be.  We recall an MDL in the early 2000s where the parties filed everything under seal over the course of multiple years—litigating for the viewing pleasure of our “friends and family,” as the district judge often chided us.  Times have

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So says the Fifth Circuit in Torrey v. Infectious Diseases Society of America, — F.4th –, 2023 WL 7890067 (5th Cir. Nov. 16, 2023).  Which joins the Second and Third Circuits in protecting scientific free speech.  Cases we discussed here and here and which support our firm belief that scientific articles are “core”

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If we had forgotten that there continue to be abundant U.S. cases of COVID-19, then there was plenty around us to remind us.  Public mask usage seems to have increased.  We heard how the “tripledemic” of viruses had made hospital beds scarce.  We have had colleagues out of commission instead of completing our assignments.  The

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There’s a problem with attorney advertising in the prescription medical product space – but it’s not the one you normally hear us defense-side litigators kvetching about. Quite apart from its litigation-generating effects, attorney advertising can have adverse public health consequences when all the anti-pharma hyperbole causes patients to cease taking targeted products in violation of

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More than once we’ve said that we read law review articles so you don’t have to.  We separate the wheat from the chaff. The wheat is scarce.  That is because law review articles usually drown the little bits of objective description of what the cases DO say with enormous chunks of pie-in-the-sky suggestions of what