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Texas District Court Vacates FDA’s Final Rule Expanding Oversight to Laboratory Tests in Hospitals

In our May 2024 Healthcare Alert, we discussed a final rule published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amending its regulations to include in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs), even those manufactured in a...more

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Federal Court Vacates FDA's Final Rule on Laboratory-Developed Tests

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On March 31, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas issued a decision in the case brought by the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), challenging the FDA’s final rule...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Post‑Chevron Spotlight: Federal Court Nixes FDA Rule Reclassifying Laboratory Services as Medical Devices

In another rebuke to federal regulatory overreach, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) has vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2024 final rule that sought to bring...more

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District Court Embraces Loper Bright and Overturns FDA Laboratory Developed Test Rule – What Lies Ahead?

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On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA (“ACLA v. FDA”), a closely watched case...more

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FDA’s Attempt to Regulate Lab-Developed Tests Struck Down in Federal Court

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On March 31, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas vacated the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule that sought to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and...more

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Reissued patents get Hatch-Waxman PTE based on original patent date, CAFC rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently considered a novel question regarding calculation of the regulatory review period for patent term extension (PTE) under 35 USC § 156 for reissued patents....more

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Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs) Do Not Qualify as ‘Devices’ Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act

On March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule, in which FDA attempted to assert regulatory authority over laboratory-developed...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The LDT Final Rule Bites the Dust: Examining the Repercussions of the Federal Court’s Vacatur and What the Future May Hold

On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests...more

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Protecting Trade Secrets in FDA Submissions from FOIA Disclosure in the Wake of FDA Layoffs

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In the wake of recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the FDA is likely to have fewer resources to manage its regulatory responsibilities. One area that may be significantly impacted by such...more

King & Spalding

FDA's LDT Rule Struck Down by Court: FDA Has Lost the Battle, But Is the War Over?

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A court has struck down the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to extend its regulatory authority to clinical laboratory testing services. On March 31, 2025, in the consolidated cases American Clinical Laboratory...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Federal Court Strikes Down LDT Final Rule

On March 31, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule under which FDA would have started regulating most laboratory-developed tests...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FDA’s LDT Final Rule Rejected by Federal District Court in Texas

As Wilson Sonsini previously reported,1 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been preparing the industry to comply with the 2024 LDT Final Rule, which phases out the FDA’s enforcement discretion policy for...more

Epstein Becker & Green

A Final Rule Bites the Dust: Federal Court Rules FDA Lacks Authority to Regulate LDTs

The order is in, and the LDT Final Rule is out. In May 2024, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) published its Final Rule establishing its regulatory framework over laboratory developed tests...more

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The Sole Meaning of “Solely”: Supreme Court Denies Certiorari on Edward Life Sciences v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. and Permits...

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This month the Supreme Court denied certiorari on Edwards Lifesciences Corp. v. Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., and in doing so, seemingly indicated its support for a broad interpretation of the Hatch-Waxman safe harbor...more

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Federal Court Blocks FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Warning Rule: The Limits of Regulatory Authority

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On Monday, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Texas, Judge J. Campbell Barker, ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exceeded its authority under the Tobacco Control Act by requiring cigarette...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Federal Circuit: Patent Must Claim Active Ingredient for Orange Book Listing

On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a significant ruling in the Teva v. Amneal case following oral arguments before the Federal Circuit, which we discussed in our previous article. ...more

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Stem Cell Litigation Update: FDA Won the Latest Battle, but the Future of HCT/P Enforcement Remains Unclear

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On September 27, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s decision in U.S. v. California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc. (“California Stem Cell”), holding that a clinic’s stem cell...more

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Post-Chevron Insights and Resources

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On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the US Supreme Court overruled the decades-old Chevron doctrine. This decision means that courts must now determine the meaning of federal statutes and effectively...more

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New FDA Brief in Supreme Court Tobacco Case Puts Spotlight on Post-Chevron Regulatory Landscape

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FDA says its authority to implement the TCA is not limited by Loper Bright, but suggests that future guidance documents may be limited. On August 26, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) filed its...more

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What's Next for the Regulatory Landscape Post-Chevron?

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For nearly 40 years and in more than 18,000 judicial opinions, federal courts have used the Chevron doctrine to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court...more

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[Hybrid Event] Due Diligence Decoded: M&A Success in FDA-Regulated Industries - September 20th, Boston, MA

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Join Gardner Law for a half-day CLE event in person at Loft on Two in Boston, MA or attend virtually. Industry experts will decode the intricacies of regulatory scrutiny and strategic decision-making in acquisitions. Gain...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions Could Dramatically Impact Health Care Regulatory Challenges at the Federal and State Levels

For nearly 40 years, federal courts have been required to defer to an agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute, even if the court did not agree with that interpretation. This deference, commonly referred to as Chevron...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FDA: The Effects of Loper on the Regulatory Agenda

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The Supreme Court’s decision in June 2024 in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce to overrule the Chevron doctrine has major implications for every administrative agency,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Top 10 Takeaways for Businesses from the Supreme Court’s Three Big Administrative Law Decisions in 2024

Now that the dust has settled following the Supreme Court’s overhaul of administrative law through three late-term decisions, Akin litigators and policy advisors offer the most significant takeaways for businesses and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 3, July 2024

Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more

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