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Gen. Injectables & Vaccines, Inc. v. Gates

Administrative Law, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Government Contracts
A decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals affirming the termination of a government contract for default is affirmed where: 1) an...

Weaver v. CCA Indus., Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
A ruling, which found that a policy issued by third-party insurer to its insured provided no coverage to third-party plaintiff and that the insurer...

Aventis Pharma S.A. v. Amphastar Pharm., Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent case involving plaintiffs-Aventis' drug Lovenox, a drug effective in preventing blood clotting while minimizing the possibility of...

Amerisource Corp. v. U.S.

Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Property Law & Real Estate
A ruling that there was no compensable taking in the seizure of an innocent third party's property, which was never introduced as evidence in a...

Ackermann v. Wyeth Pharm.

Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case brought plaintiff-wife alleging that defendant failed to adequately warn about drug-induced risk of suicide from its drug Effexor, leading to...

Pharm. Care Mgmt. Ass'n v. Dist. of Columbia

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Health Law
In a suit to block a DC law that would require pharmacy benefit managers to act as fiduciaries, to disclose the content of their contracts with...

BASF AG v. Great Am. Assurance Co.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Insurance Law
In a suit seeking to recover damages from defendants-insurers for their failure to defend and indemnify plaintiff during a suit over the marketing of...

Advocare Int'l LP v. Horizon Labs., Inc.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
In a suit brought by a company that formulated and sold products for improving nutrition and weight loss, arising from underlying suits claiming...

Colacicco v. Apotex Inc.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In state-law tort actions brought against drug manufacturers of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ("SRRIs") based on a...

Fernandez-Vargas v. Pfizer Pharm., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action arising from the death of a person who was shot while working at Pfizer's facility in Puerto Rico, judgment for defendant is affirmed...