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Chantix MDL Judge Orders Mediation Next Month As Majority Of Cases Settle
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - With a "substantial majority" of cases reported resolved, the Chantix multidistrict litigation court on March 12 ordered a mandatory April 10 mediation session for all remaining...
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Most Watson Fentanyl Patch MDL Cases Reported Settled
CHICAGO - A settlement approval hearing for most of the federal Watson fentanyl patch cases was scheduled in a March 12 order by the Illinois federal judge overseeing the litigation (In Re: Watson...
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2nd Circuit Ruling May Force FDA's Hand In Banning Antibacterial Soap Chemical
NEW YORK - An environmental advocacy group has standing to sue the Food and Drug Administration to force it to finalize a drug monograph that may ban one ingredient in antibacterial soaps, but its...
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NECC Trustee Wants All Meningitis Outbreak MDL Cases Sent To Bankruptcy Court
BOSTON - The trustee for the bankrupt New England Compounding Center (NECC) on March 10 asked a multidistrict litigation court overseeing federal meningitis outbreak injury cases to transfer all filed...
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Trial Date Set For 1st MDL Trial Involving C.R. Bard Avaulta Pelvic Mesh Device
CHARLESTON, W. Va. - The first federal trials involving the C.R. Bard Inc. Avaulta pelvic mesh device will begin July 8, the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation said in a March 12 order (In...
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Teva Pharmaceuticals To Pay $2.2M To Resolve Claims Over Facility's Discharges
ST. LOUIS - Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. on March 14 agreed to pay $2.25 million in civil penalties to resolve claims from the federal government and State of Missouri that discharges from the...
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FDA Litigation Deputy Rick Blumberg Dies
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Eric M. "Rick" Blumberg, the Food and Drug Administration's deputy for litigation and a 42-year agency veteran, died Feb. 7, the FDA reported March 8....(read more)
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FDA Reviewing Study Suggesting Pancreatitis, Pre-Cancer Risk From Incretin...
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration on March 14 said it is evaluating an unpublished medical study that suggests an increased risk of pancreatitis and pre-cancerous cell changes in type 2...
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FDA Warns Zithromax, Zmax Can Cause Heart Rhythm Changes, Some Fatal
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration on March 12 warned that Zithromax brand azithromycin antibiotic, also sold as Zmax, can cause abnormal heart rhythms that may potentially be...
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Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Products After Fungus Found In Intravenous Solution
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Compounding pharmacy Med Prep Consulting Inc. has issued a nationwide recall of its products after fungus was found in five bags of its magnesium sulfate intravenous (IV) solution, the...
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FDA Learns Of More Deaths, Injuries From Stryker Neptune Surgical Waste Device
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Food and Drug Administration on March 15 said it has become aware of additional death and injury reports related to the recalled Stryker Instruments Neptune 1 Silver and Neptune 2...
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Divided Supreme Court Finds Plaintiffs Lack Standing To Challenge...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26 held that Amnesty International USA and others lacked standing to bring a constitutional challenge to an amended portion of the...
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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari To File-Sharer Hit With $222,000 In Damages
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In its March 18 orders list, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari brought by a Minnesota woman who had a $222,000 copyright infringement damages award against her...
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Adult Filmmaker Dismisses Copyright Suit After Discovery Motion Is Mostly Denied
NEWARK, N.J. - Two days after a New Jersey federal judge denied most of its motion to conduct discovery related to 11 John Does in a file-sharing lawsuit, an adult entertainment firm on Feb. 28...
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En Banc 9th Circuit Finds Border Search Of Laptop Did Not Violate 4th Amendment
PASADENA, Calif. - The search of a man's laptop computer by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials that occurred 170 miles from the border did not constitute an "extended border search" and did...
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9th Circuit Issues New Ruling In Dispute Over DMCA Safe Harbor
SAN FRANCISCO - While denying rehearing en banc, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 14 granted rehearing and issued a new ruling that again affirmed a California federal judge's grant of...
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Copyright Claims To Proceed In Dispute Over Educational Website
TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey federal judge on March 13 refused to dismiss allegations of copyright infringement levied in connection with an interactive social studies website (Christopher D. Bradshaw...
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California Federal Judge Reduces Apple's Award In Patent Dispute With Samsung
SAN FRANCISCO - Saying that a jury "failed to follow the Court's instructions on the law and awarded damages based on a legally impermissible theory," a California federal judge on March 1 slashed...
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Apple Denied JMOL, Remittitur After $368 Million Verdict In FaceTime Patent Case
TYLER, Texas - A Texas federal judge on Feb. 26 denied a motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) to Apple Inc. following a jury's finding that the tech giant's FaceTime and VPN On Demand (VPNOD)...
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Federal Circuit Partly Reverses Re-Examination Findings For Online Ad Patent
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A decision by the Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences (BPAI) that rejected various claims of an online advertising patent was vacated in part on March 7 by the Federal...
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