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Riegel v. Medtronic

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The pre-emption clause enacted in the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 (MDA) bars common-law claims challenging the safety or effectiveness of a...

Express Scripts, Inc. v. Aegon Direct Mktg. Servs., Inc.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Drugs & Biotech
In an action seeking a declaratory judgment that an oral agreement terminated an earlier agreement to arbitrate contractual disputes, as well as...

Zatuchni v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A judgment awarding petitioner over $800,000 under the National Vaccine Compensation Program is affirmed where, contrary to the government's claims,...

Avera v. Sec'y of Health & Hum. Servs.

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case involving a dispute over the proper calculation and award of attorney's fees under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a...

State of Wisconsin v. Amgen, Inc.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Sanctions
In an action against defendant charging fraudulent pricing of pharmaceutical drugs in violation of Wisconsin state law, an order remanding the case...

Rush v. Wyeth

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a case which is part of multi-district litigation (MDL) on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) alleging that defendant's products, Premarin and...

Monsanto Co. v. Bayer Bioscience N.V.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement case relating to chimeric genes brought by plaintiff asserting that its transgenic corn products did not infringe certain of...

Innogenetics, L.V. v. Abbott Labs.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent case involving technology pertaining to diagnostic tools that not only detect but also classify hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes in a...

Aronowitz v. Health-Chem Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Omnibus order setting aside a jury verdict on contract claim, reducing $2.6 million damage award to $1, upholding a trademark infringement verdict,...

Campaign for Responsible Transplantation v. FDA

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law
In FOIA litigation over FDA records pertaining to clinical trials in 35 investigational new drugs involving xenotransplantation, a procedure whereby...