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In re: Cardizem CD Antitrust Litig.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Drugs & Biotech
In a class action alleging conspiracy to minimize competition among pharmaceutical companies, an order requiring an attorney for a party to pay costs...

Markovich v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
"[T]he first symptom or manifestation of onset," for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. section 300aa-16(a)(2), is the first event objectively recognizable as...

Cox Nuclear Pharmacy, Inc. v. CTI, Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
In case involving a failed transaction for the sale of a cyclotron, a device used to create radioactive pharmaceuticals, summary judgment in favor of...

Abbott Labs. v. Takeda Pharm. Co. Ltd.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Drugs & Biotech, International Law
Dismissal of a suit for breach of fiduciary duties by one co-owner of a Delaware pharmaceutical corporation against the other is affirmed where a...

Israel Bio-Engineering Project v. Amgen, Inc.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendant in a patent infringement action involving a pharmaceutical to treat rheumatoid arthritis is affirmed where plaintiff...

Savient Pharms., Inc. v. Dep't of Health Servs.

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, Health Law
In a pharmaceutical company's challenge to the structure and actions of a Department of Health Services program administered by respondent involving...

Forest Labs., Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law, International Trade, Tax Law
The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (Customs) has no authority to change the statutorily mandated tariff rates for merchandise that is...

Ortho-McNeil Pharm., Inc. v. Caraco Pharm. Labs., Ltd.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Summary judgment for defendant of non-infringement of a claim in a patent directed to a pharmaceutical composition of drugs that act as pain relievers...

Chicago Dist. Council of Carpenters Welfare Fund v. Caremark, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of a suit for breach of fiduciary duties under ERISA involving a prescription drug management plan is affirmed where defendant was not...

Desiano v. Warner Lambert Co.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In case alleging injuries caused by the drug Rezulin, grant of judgment on the pleadings for defendants, finding Michigan plaintiffs' claims were...