SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the FDA the power to regulate tobacco products and requires manufacturers to obtain the FDAs permission before putting a new tobacco product on the market. What arguments could you raise, she queried, that would be different than the manufacturer?

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Earlier this year, Pritzker signed the challenged bill into law, instituting a statewide ban on the sale and manufacture of assault rifles. Known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA), the law prohibits the sale and manufacturing of assault weapon attachments,50 caliber cartridges, any.50 50 caliber rifle and certain pistols.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Mexican government claims that American gun makers have knowingly adopted business practices that facilitate firearms smuggling.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

Sotomayor wrote separately “to underscore the interaction between prison officials’ obligations to set such rules and the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Since that day, Ramirez has manufactured more than a decade of delay to evade the capital sentence lawfully imposed by the State of Texas.

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Mondaq

MARCH 16, 2022

Mark Smyth and Jojo Fan discuss the rapidly increasing developments in climate change and ESG litigation globally including greenwashing, inadequate disclosure and challenges for manufacturing and governments.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S. founder and CEO.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 3, 2021

Shooter Connor Betts was killed by Dayton police officers less than a minute after he opened fire outside a bar--but he was able to kill nine people within 20 seconds.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

Kroger, which has a large presence in West Virginia, is the last of the major pharmacies that remain a defendant in the litigation. The litigation against Kroger is scheduled for trial in June. Additionally, Rite Aid agreed to settle for $30 million in August 2022.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The California law makes it a felony to manufacture, distribute, import, keep for sale or lend assault weapons. There have been other litigation this year after the Bruen ruling challenging state gun laws. The case is in the US District Court for the Southern District of California.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2021

” Euroconsumers is taking action against Apple because it believes that planned obsolescence, the practice of manufacturing a good to become prematurely out-of-date, is a “deliberate unfair practice towards consumers” and “environmentally irresponsible.”

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” The landscape of opioids and litigation in the US continues to change. This year, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case regarding a doctor’s liability for prescribing opioids, and drug manufacturers and distributors paid large settlements and faced liability for their contributions to the opioid crisis.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This doctrine allows the government to potentially dismiss litigation that would require disclosure of information damaging to national security. involves a complicated copyright dispute between two clothing manufactures. A lawsuit was filed in 2011 but was dismissed based on state secrets privilege. Unicolors, Inc.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The state's supreme court noted that state law shields firearms manufacturers from liability except when their products malfunction.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2022

Endo will continue litigating other claims not covered by this settlement agreement. Just last month a New York jury found opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals USA liable for public nuisance after it inundated the state with pills, killing thousands of people. and Endo Health Solutions Inc.,

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

The centerpiece of Cuomo’s plan is a new law to allow victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under a nuisance theory. Indeed, its main component — a law allowing citizens to sue gun manufacturers — will be as productive as trying to win the New York Marathon by running furiously in place. Andrew Cuomo. Of the $138.7

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

The court rejected Ford’s argument that personal specific jurisdiction was limited to lawsuits in states where Ford manufactured or originally sold vehicles. Can anyone seriously argue that requiring Ford to litigate these cases in Minnesota and Montana would be fundamentally unfair?”

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — As drug manufacturers battle the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) in federal courts over the role of 340B contract pharmacies, an Eighth Circuit decision to uphold a 2021 Arkansas law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. Code Ann. § 23-92-604(c)(1), (2) (Act 1103).

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Law 360

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Joint Panel of Multidistrict Litigation has sent five state cases against insulin manufacturers such as Eli Lilly and pharmacy benefit managers including CVS to the District of New Jersey, ruling the district will allow for efficient pretrial proceedings.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2022

This latest lawsuit comes amid a wave of litigation and settlements relating to the United States’s opioid epidemic. On Tuesday a group of West Virginia localities reached a settlement with three opioid manufacturers for $400 million after officials accused the manufacturers of fueling the epidemic.

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2022

3M's attempt to shift the massive multidistrict litigation over the manufacturer's defective earplugs to a federal bankruptcy court is a deeply troubling move to avoid a fair trial, and should not be allowed to proceed, says Robert Klonoff at Lewis & Clark Law School.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Following almost nine years of litigation, Georgia manufacturer Universal Alloy Corp. defeated at trial allegations it stole Alcoa's trade secrets and a $200 million contract with Boeing for aircraft wing parts. Here, UAC's lead trial attorneys from Latham & Watkins LLP reveal to Law360 how they did it.

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Patently O

MARCH 14, 2025

All three cases are part of consolidated multi-district litigation in the Northern District of West Virginia. EYLEA generates approximately $6 billion in annual sales, making the stakes exceptionally high for Regeneron, the biosimilar manufacturers, and patients as well. Each appeal involves the same U.S.

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Patently O

JANUARY 17, 2022

Deepsouth litigated its case to the Supreme Court, and the Court eventually allowed the company to escape some portion of its adjudged liability based upon the territorial limits of U.S. No such signal legitimizes respondent’s position in this litigation.”. manufacturing capability. patent law. Deepsouth Packing Co.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Indian Federation Of App Based Transport Workers (IFAT), a federation of the registered trade unions, on Tuesday filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Indian Supreme Court on behalf of gig workers demanding social security benefits from food delivery apps such as Zomato and Swiggy and taxi aggregator apps Ola and Uber.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Many of the updates relate to drug manufacturer practices with regard to speaker events, including meals, choice of venue, and attendance. Although the PhRMA Code is a voluntary code of conduct, drug manufacturers should consider updating their marketing policies and practices to align with the new Code. Other jurisdictions like D.C.

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LegalReader

JUNE 8, 2021

That’s because the manufacturing companies and rideshares have been overly willing to settle these cases outside of court. As of now, very little information is known about what monetary judgements courts will typically reward.

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LegalReader

JUNE 3, 2022

The lawsuit claims that Polyerm80 is driving crime in Baltimore by selling ghost gun kits and components online.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the past two months, I’ve heard the following stories from lawyers: A major manufacturer contacted a management-side labor lawyer for a large union-related issue after looking at his bio. A trusts and estates litigator received a call after the prospect did a simple Google search. What You Say and Post Online Does Make a Difference.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In litigation filed in both California state and federal courts, plant-based food company, Beyond Meat, was sued by Don Lee Farms, a former collaborator, who alleged BM was guilty of false advertising and contract breach. Parties Get to the Meat of the Matter.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new product uses historical data, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to value cases and predict outcomes in automobile warranty litigation, with the goal of helping manufacturers resolve Lemon Law and warranty claims more accurately, more quickly, and at lower cost. billion in just the U.S. founder and CEO.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In a growing trend, plaintiffs attorneys allege the products contain toxic forever chemicals and that manufacturers misled consumers about it. Smartwatch wristbands, adhesive bandages, tampons and juice containers what do they all have in common?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“The same lines of argument that succeeded against the pharmacies here—that there were red flags that compliance systems should have picked up—could work against practices that prescribed large numbers of opioids,” said David Noll, a Rutgers law professor focusing on complex litigation.

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LegalReader

JUNE 9, 2022

Subway shooting survivor pursues legal case claiming manufacturer's marketing campaign creates a 'public nuisance.'.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 5, 2022

Litigation involving drug price reporting under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP)1 has been very active in 2022. Most recently, on August 3, 2022, an Illinois federal jury.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 3, 2023

Toxic sludges released contaminants into the air, suit says.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 340B program, authorized under Section 340B of the Public Health Services Act and administered by HRSA, imposes a ceiling price on pharmaceutical manufacturer sales to “covered entities,” which are certain health clinics that receive federal funding and certain types of safety net hospitals to provide them drugs at lower prices.

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Law 360

JANUARY 6, 2025

of inflating its stock price by exaggerating its ability to manufacture electric trucks, ruling that the shareholders have shown their case warrants the class treatment more than four years after they first sued. An Arizona federal judge on Monday certified a class of investors accusing Nikola Corp.

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