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Cent. States Health & Welfare Fund v. Merck-Medco Managed Care

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court judgment: 1) denying a motion to intervene pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); 2) certifying the class...

US v. Alerre

Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendants' convictions on drug distribution, drug conspiracy, and money-laundering conspiracy charges are affirmed over claims of error regarding...

In Re: Diet Drugs

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Approval of a nationwide settlement agreement in a class action involving diet drugs is affirmed and binds appellants where appellants had a full and...

In re the Vaccine Cases

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims is affirmed in an action under Proposition 65 and the state unfair competition law against manufacturers of vaccines...

Pfizer v. Teva Pharm.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent, Remedies
Order granting plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction against defendants, generic drug manufacturers, is affirmed where the district court...

Invitrogen v. Clontech

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
The district court-s invalidity judgment and conception ruling in a patent case involving molecular biology are vacated where it misapplied the law of...

US v. Lane Labs, Inc.

Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech
A district court has the power, under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, to order a defendant found to be in violation of the Act to pay...

Novo Nordisk Pharm. v. Bio-Tech. Gen. Corp.

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent dispute concerning human growth hormones, the district court improperly ruled that plaintiff's patent was invalid based on anticipation...

In re: Fisher

Drugs & Biotech, Intellectual Property, Patent
Expressed sequence tags(EST) are unpatentable for lack of utility under 35 U.S.C. section 101 unless there is a known use for the genes from which...

Wedgewood Village Pharm. v. US

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Drugs & Biotech
Plaintiff-pharmacy was not exempt from FDA inspection under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the issuance of the warrant for the inspection did...