WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that makers of generic drugs cannot be sued for failing to warn consumers of the possible side effects of their products if they copy the exact warnings on the brand-name equivalents of the medicines... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court seemed split on Wednesday on whether to allow generic drug makers to be sued in state court for not trying to get federal regulators to add warnings about potentially dangerous side effects to their drug labels... Read More
During its October 28, 2011, conference, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded to the Ninth Circuit its ruling denying federal preemption to a generic manufacturer of ibuprofen to be reassessed in light of the Court's Mensing decision last term. The remand... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey's) The Supreme Court on Dec. 7 granted the Federal Trade Commission’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking consideration of whether reverse-payment settlements of patent litigation between the holder of... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 10 agreed to decide whether the Hatch Waxman Act prevents manufacturers of generic drugs from adding new warnings to drug labels as new risks become known ( Pliva, Inc. v. Gladys Mensing... Read More
Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts wrote for the Court on March 16, 2018 that a generic drug user’s negligence claim against Merck had been properly dismissed by the Judge Kenneth J. Fishman of the Middlesex... Read More
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - (Mealey's) An 8-1 majority of the Alabama Supreme Court on Jan. 11 ruled that Wyeth can be held liable for failing to warn doctors about the risk of long-term use of Reglan if a patient was injured by metoclopramide, the generic... Read More
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —(Mealey’s) A brand-name drug manufacturer may be liable under Alabama law for fraud or misrepresentation in a drug label used by generic drug makers, the Alabama Supreme Court held Aug. 15 after reconsidering its 2013 decision... Read More
TRENTON, N.J. — (Mealey’s) A New Jersey state appeals court panel on Nov. 12 affirmed a lower court ruling that generic drug manufacturers can be sued for failure to update their labels with warnings added to the labels of the predecessor... Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The U.S. solicitor general will be allowed to argue March 19 that design defect claims involving generic drugs are preempted by federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court decided March 4 in granting the federal government's... Read More
NEW ORLEANS - (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that preempts failure-to-warn claims involving generic drugs does not change Louisiana state law and make manufacturers of brand-name versions liable, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals... Read More
On January 24, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals joined the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, in extending the Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine to state law failure-to-warn claims against makers of generic drugs. The Ninth Circuit held... Read More