Commercial Law & Contracts, Products Liability, Conflict of Laws

Generic Drug Law Update -- November 2012: New Bill Seeks to Expand Manufacturers Post-Sale Pharmacovigilance Duties

by Sedgwick LLP on 11/14/2012

Democratic legislators in both houses of Congress introduced legislation that seeks to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 131 S.Ct. 2567 (2011), which bars state law tort suits against...more

BLG Monthly Update for September 2012

by Neil Guthrie on 9/19/2012

Welly-wanging, Elvis memorabilia, insider trading and the usual neat contracts cases -- all this and more in the BLG Monthly Update for 2012!...more

A Double Dose of Preemption

by Dechert LLP on 5/9/2012

In medical device cases, preemption will hunt you down. In Hinkel v. St. Jude Medical, S.C. Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56322 (E.D. La. April 23, 2012), the plaintiff survived removal and discovery only to be caught by...more

More Thoughts On Bartlett

by Dechert LLP on 5/7/2012

Our initial post about Bartlett v. Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., ___ F.3d ___, 2012 WL 1522004 (1st Cir. May 2, 2012), was more or less a crie de coeur over what we saw as an essentially absurd result: that while a simple...more

Product Liability Update -- April 2012

by Foley Hoag LLP on 4/19/2012

In This Issue: *United States Supreme Court Holds Federal Locomotive Inspection Act Preempts Entire Field of Regulating Locomotive Equipment, Including State Law Claims Alleging Defective Design or Failure to Warn Based...more

The Noose Tightens Around TPP Economic Loss Claims

by Dechert LLP on 10/26/2011

Yesterday, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal – for failure to state a claim – of TPP economic loss claims in the Trasylol litigation. See Southeast Laborers Health & Welfare Fund v. Bayer Corp., No. 10-13196, ___ Fed....more

Product Liability Update - July 2011

by Foley Hoag LLP on 7/29/2011

In This Issue: - United States Supreme Court Holds State Law Rule Mandating Classwide Arbitration of Consumer Claims Stands as Obstacle to Purposes of Federal Arbitration Act and Is Therefore Preempted - United...more

AT&T v. Concepcion in Drug/Device Cases?

by Dechert LLP on 5/24/2011

Like everybody else we took a look at the Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, slip op., 131 S. Ct. 1740 (U.S. 2011), on the Federal Arbitration Act’s preemption of state law limiting the...more

Appellate Update

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 5/9/2011

Since Chief Justice John Roberts’ appointment in 2005, three more new justices have joined the United States Supreme Court—Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2009, and Justice Elena Kagan last year....more

Federal Government to Provide Its Position on Generic Preemption to the U.S. Supreme Court

by Duane Morris LLP on 8/3/2010

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's March 2009 landmark decision in Wyeth v. Levine, state and federal courts have struggled with how to apply Levine to failure-to-warn products liability claims against generic pharmaceutical...more

Supreme Court Rules on Wyeth: State Law Claims Not Preempted

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 3/4/2009

On March 4, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its eagerly awaited decision in Wyeth v. Levine, U.S. Supreme Court No. 06 1249, 555 U.S. ____ (2009). In a 6-3 decision delivered by Justice Stevens, the Court held that...more

Bringing Locus Into Focus: A Choice-of-Law Methodology for CISG-based Concurrent Contract and Product Liability Claims

by Antonin Pribetic on 1/30/2007

The article discusses choice-of-law theories for both contractual and tort/product liability claims governed by the CISG. The underlying theme is that concurrent claims are not necessarily equivalent claims. While concurrent...more

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