Happy Christmas/Hanukkah/solstice and Merry New Year to all our readers. May your 2012 be filled with winning arguments, TwIqbal dismissals, and summary judgments. There’s not much of 2011 left now, although we’d be overjoyed for one or more last-minute decisions to come down and warrant a change to the list that follows.

What list is that?

Why our list of our favorite drug/medical device judicial decisions of 2011, of course. And what a list it is. Between three United States Supreme Court decisions, four (maybe five, depending on how we count) court of appeals decisions, and two more by state supreme courts, only one federal trial court opinion was able to make this year’s cut.