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US v. Kaminski

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendants' convictions and sentences under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) for various offenses, including conspiracy to introduce into...

In re Sullivan

Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Patent
A decision rejecting certain claims of a patent application, relating to an antivenom composition used to treat rattlesnake bites, under 35 U.S.C....

TMJ Implants, Inc. v. Aetna, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit brought against insurers by a manufacturer of certain prosthetic implants for defamation and related torts, dismissal of the complaint for...

Frazer v. Schlegel

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, International Law, Patent
In an interference between patent applications involving a vaccine, a decision awarding priority to appellees is reversed and remanded where, based on...

Korangy v. FDA

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Petition for review challenging respondent's order imposing monetary sanctions on petitioners for allowing a statutorily-required certification to...

Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund v. Zeneca Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising, Remedies
In an action against a drug maker alleging it engaged in deceptive conduct in the advertising of its new drug Nexium, dismissal of the complaint with...

US v. Global Distribs., Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Remedies
In a civil action against a distributor for failing to demand proof of identity from purchasers of a cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine, summary...

Employers-Teamsters Local Nos. 175 & 505 Pension Trust Fund v. Anchor Capital Advisors

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech, Securities Law
An appeal brought by non-parties to an uncertified securities class action challenging an order granting lead plaintiff's motion to dismiss its claims...

Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. Von Eschenbach

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Holding that the Constitution does not provide terminally ill patients with a right of access to experimental drugs that have passed limited safety is...

Biotech. Indus. Org. v. Dist. of Columbia

Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law
In a pre-enforcement challenge to a statute of the District of Columbia prohibiting any patented drug from being sold in the District for an excessive...