Defense of Mass Tort Claims, Class Actions, and Significant Product-Based Litigation
Amarin Pharma and the FDA recently announced a widely expected settlement of First Amendment litigation over restrictions on the company’s promotion of its Vascepa product.
Readers may recall that this was one of several recent challenges to the FDA’s attempt to restrict off-label promotion of prescription products, even if that speech is truthful and not…
Implied preemption makes complete sense when it is evident that the FDA would not have permitted label changes that plaintiffs in private litigation s…
Continue Reading Preemption Found in Another Drug MDL
Readers will recall our many posts about the “all natural” litigation and the spate of cases plaintiff firms have brought challenging such l…
Continue Reading FDA Seeks Comment on “Natural” Labels
The court recently extended its stay of the proceedings in Amarin Pharma Inc.’s suit against the FDA challenging threatened agency action concerning t…
Continue Reading Stay in Amarin Extended
A California recently indicated he would stay a putative class action raising allegations about labeling of “evaporated cane juice” pendin…
Continue Reading Proposed Class Action Stayed Pending FDA Guidance
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America last week submitted an amicus brief relating to the FDA’s response to a drug company’s suit c…
Continue Reading PhRMA Responds to FDA Letter in First Amendment Dispute
A California federal court recently rejected a putative consumer class action alleging the defendant somehow misled customers about antioxidants in it…
Continue Reading Chocolate Class Action Dismissed
A federal court rejected a putative class action against tea maker Twinings North America, Inc. over antioxidant labeling. See Craig v. Twinings N. Am…
Continue Reading Tea Class Action Dumped Overboard
We have posted before about the BPA “controversy” egged on by lawyers seeking their next mass tort. Now comes yet another report on BPA, fro…
Continue Reading Expert Panel Confirms Safety of BPA Use
With a tip of the cap to our old friend, Peter Pliszka, north of border: Earlier this month, the so-called Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act …
Continue Reading New Drug Law in Canada
