all - Opinion Summaries

In re: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) Prods. Liability Litig.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Sanctions
While the factors which guide a court's discretion in ordinary cases on an ordinary docket also inform an multidistrict litigation (MDL) court's...

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

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A decision sustaining the dismissal of a petition for compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, arising from the death of...

I.U. N. Am., Inc. v. A.I.U. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Defendants-Pfizer and Quigley Company's motion for reargument regarding denial of their summary judgment motion and a grant of summary judgment to an...

McNeil v. Wyeth

Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment for defendant, a pharmaceutical company, on failure-to-warn claims involving a drug for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease is...

US v. Hurwitz

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Conviction of multiple counts of drug trafficking for prescribing narcotic pain medicine is vacated as the district court did not properly instruct...

In Re: Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litig.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Dismissal of complaint is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in dismissing the complaint based on its conclusion that the settlement...

Cook Biotech Inc. v. Acell, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A judgment finding that defendant's commercial product infringed a patent involving a tissue graft composition and that individuals willfully induced...

Belde v. Ferguson Enters., Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
Summary judgment for an employer on plaintiff's claim that his termination as a commercial vehicle driver violated his rights under state law is...

Nutraceutical Corp. v. Eschenbach

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Law
Summary judgment for plaintiffs, manufacturers and sellers of Ephedra, in a suit challenging an FDA regulation banning ephedrine alkaloid dietary...

Crews v. NCS Healthcare of Illinois, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a suit under qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act is...