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A group of 21 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit supporting Oregon in its defense of H.B. 4005, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report certain information...more
On August 7, California Attorney General Rob Bonta led a coalition of five state attorneys general (AGs) in filing an amicus letter concerning a proposed class action settlement between DuPont, Chemours, and Corteva, and...more
Ninth Circuit considers whether federal law takes precedence over California statute requiring warnings about chemicals. Hardeman v. Monsanto, pending before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, raises issues as to whether a...more
The solicitor general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court last month supporting the relators’ opposition to certiorari in Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Campie, et al., No. 17-936. Yet the...more
An amicus brief in an FCA suit indicates that the government is serious about applying the Granston Memo and invoking its statutory authority to dismiss cases. Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations and Health...more
On November 30, 2018, the Solicitor General of the United States filed an amicus curiae brief in the closely watched False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit, Gilead Sciences Inc. v. U.S. ex rel. Campie. In what appears to be an...more
In an en banc decision issued in The Medicines Company v. Hospira, Inc., the Federal Circuit determined that in order for a commercial transaction to trigger the on-sale bar of § 35 USC 102(b), it must “bear the general...more
On April 19, 2016, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion on the issue of federal preemption in Sikkelee v. Precision Airmotive Corp. The sixty-one page opinion effectively narrowed the scope of federal...more