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Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Announces Dates for Long-Awaited Public Hearing on Its Regulation of Off-Label Communications

Times, They Are A-Changin’ - On Wednesday, FDA announced that it will hold a two-day public hearing on November 9th and 10th to obtain input from a broad cross-section of the health care industry, including...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Amarin/FDA Settlement: A Significant First Amendment Victory for Off-Label Marketing

On March 8, 2016, Amarin Pharma, Inc. and FDA entered into a formal settlement, close to a year after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a preliminary injunction against FDA’s threats to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

New Settlement Highlights FDA’s Diminishing Power Over Off-Label Promotion

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In a surprising turn of events, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they have settled their dispute regarding the off-label promotion of Exparel, one of Pacira’s anesthetic...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"The Future of Government Regulation, Enforcement of Off-Label Promotion"

Three years ago, in United States v. Caronia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) neither prohibits nor criminalizes truthful, nonmisleading speech that...more

Perkins Coie

Pharma and Medical Device Industry Victory in Off-Label Marketing Decision

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that the FDA may not constitutionally bring a misbranding action based on truthful and non-misleading off-label promotion of an FDA-approved drug,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: FDA Sued Again in Off-Label Promotion Case

To quote the late Yogi Berra, it must feel like déjà vu all over again for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (or, if you prefer, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s song, “Déjà Vu” (“We have all been here before”)). Fresh off...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - August 2015 #4

In Case You Missed It: Possible Jail Time for TCPA Violations, Microsoft Gets Slammed With Solicitation Scam Class Action, and 'Do Not Disturb' Technology Gets Pushed on FCC - The world of the Telephone Consumer...more

Jackson Walker

Another Successful First Amendment Challenge to the Prohibition of Off-Label Promotion for FDA-Approved Drugs

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The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment prevailed in the latest challenge to the FDA's prohibition against marketing FDA-approved drugs for off-label (or non-FDA-approved) uses. Applying the Second Circuit’s...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Another One Bites the Dust: FDA Doesn’t Like the Fishy Smell of the Latest Court Decision on Off-Label Dissemination

In the most recent court decision, Amarin Pharma, Inc. v. United States Food and Drug Administration, No. 15 Civ. 3588 (PAE) (S.D. N.Y. August 5, 2015), a U.S. District Court granted Amarin's preliminary injunction to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Pharmaceutical Companies Get Off-Label Marketing Victory

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Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot prohibit a pharmaceutical company from marketing its drugs for off-label uses if its claims are truthful and not misleading. This ruling,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

District Court Holds That FDCA Does Not Prohibit and Criminalize Truthful Off-Label Promotion of FDA-Approved Prescription Drugs

On August 7, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York released its Amarin opinion addressing whether truthful, non-misleading off-label promotion of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved...more

Morgan Lewis

Practical Implications from Amarin

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Amarin is an important US district court opinion affirming the importance of the Second Circuit’s Caronia decision and finding that pharmaceutical and medical device companies have a constitutionally protected right to...more

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