[This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.]
Today we report on Dickson v. Dexcom, Inc, 2024 WL 4291511 (W.D. La. 2024), an important medical-device preemption case that started with a doctrinal bang but ended on a
[This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.]
Today we report on Dickson v. Dexcom, Inc, 2024 WL 4291511 (W.D. La. 2024), an important medical-device preemption case that started with a doctrinal bang but ended on a…
In re Deepwater Horizon Belo Cases, — F.4th –, 2024 WL 4522690 (11th Cir. Oct. 18, 2024), is not a drug or device case. It is the Eleventh Circuit’s review of the Northern District of Florida’s exclusion of the plaintiffs’…
The Drug and Device Law Blog is deliberately apolitical. Our purpose is to support the defense of prescription medical product liability litigation, and we recognize that the political views of our intended audience undoubtedly vary widely.
But one of the…
Federal officer jurisdiction is the quiet middle child of the federal jurisdiction family. We all came out of law school fully versed in federal question jurisdiction and diversity jurisdiction (and we also vividly recall our civil procedure professor using Wyoming…
Almost a year ago (how time flies!), we brought you our first Rico Madness post, regarding the cert petition in Medical Marijuana, Inc. v. Horn, and promised to keep you updated if the Supreme Court took the case. …
This is the second time in the last couple of weeks that we’ve written on a case brought under the False Claims Act (FCA). That is no accident. We are about to start a FCA trial, and have been studying…
Ironically, today’s post is running a little late—because life’s not perfect and sometimes despite the best of intentions, you need a bit more time. But, if you are going to ask for more time to meet a court ordered deadline…
Unfortunately, the Third Circuit now seems to have a fetish with the presumption against preemption. Not long after the Supreme Court abolished that presumption in express preemption cases in Puerto Rico v. Franklin-California Tax-Free Trust, 579 U.S. 115 (2016), the…
This has been a big year for blood and tissue statute decisions. Given their subject matter, we’ve previously lamented that the decisions didn’t fall closer to Halloween. While not quite coinciding with our doorbells ringing and handing out candy to…
We have no personal knowledge of the litigation concerning GLP-1 receptor agonist medications and the Blog has not posted on it yet, but we do know something about litigation over widely used prescription medications. Over the decades, there have been…