On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an expansive Executive Order directed at increasing competition in the U.S. economy. The Executive Order contains 72 initiatives pertaining to more than a dozen federal agencies,...more
For decades, politicians of both stripes routinely promised that they would do something about the relentless rise in health insurance costs by repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Now that Congress passed and former...more
Earlier this month, in Duran v. La Boom Disco, Inc. --- F.3d ----, 2020 WL 1682773 (2d Cir. Apr. 7, 2020), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals widened the circuit split over the definition of an “automatic telephone dialing...more
On March 27, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court, in Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company v. Beasley, No. 18-0469, decided whether “an injured plaintiff had standing to bring suit against his personal injury protection...more
A sweeping new opinion from the California Supreme Court revives California Cartwright Act challenges to pay-for-delay pharmaceutical patent settlements. In re Cipro Cases I & II, (Case No. S198616, Slip Op. May 7, 2015). A...more
5/28/2015
/ Actavis Inc. ,
Burden-Shifting ,
CA Supreme Court ,
Cartwright Act ,
Forum Shopping ,
Generic Drugs ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Pay-For-Delay ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements ,
Rule-of-Reason Analysis ,
Settlement