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Vaccine Litigation
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Drug & Device Law
Tenth Circuit Holds that PREP Act Preempts Vaccine Breach of Contract Claim
Dressen v. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, 2026 WL 2122898(10th Cir. July 23, 2026), extends to four weeks our streak of discussing favorable vaccine decisions – this time involving product liability. In…
Drug & Device Law
Gardasil POTS Expert Gets Panned
By Bexis
We’ve gleefully detailed the plaintiffs’ utter failure in the Zostavax MDL to establish causation. Now, the Gardasil MDL likewise seems well on the way to a place on the list…
Duane Morris Products Liability
Vaccine Maker Granted Summary Judgement Due to Implied Preemption
By Duane Morris
By Sean K. Burke and Gabrielle Pelura On March 11, 2025, Judge Kenneth Bell in the Western District of North Carolina granted summary judgment in favor of Merck & Co.…
Drug & Device Law
From a Texas-Sized Mess to All Hat and No Cattle in Two Pages
By Bexis
Little more than a year ago, in our “Texas Mess” post, we critiqued what we called a “bizarre complaint” recently filed by the Texas attorney general (“TAG”) against a major…
Drug & Device Law
Vermont Supreme Court Correctly Rejects Vaccine Claim Under PREP Act
The Vermont Supreme Court correctly applied the PREP Act last week to dismiss state-law claims arising from a COVID vaccine. See Politella v. Windham Southeast School Dist., No 23-AP-237, 2024…
Drug & Device Law
Zostavax Lone Pine — The Appeal
We’ve been covering the Lone Pine Zostavax saga for a long time. See Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The story moved to the Third Circuit late last year…
Drug & Device Law
Differential Diagnosis At Its Worst In Vaccine Litigation
Recently, when we have spoken of vaccine litigation, it has mostly been about challenges to public health policies requiring vaccination against COVID-19 for healthcare workers, students at public universities, etc. …
Drug & Device Law
PA Court Boots Vax Case
We’ll admit it: this post is written out of pure jealousy. Last week, Tauber authored a post on vaccines and set a record for DDL blogpost “hits.” It was a…
Drug & Device Law
Guest Post – Causation or No Causation, That Is the Question.
By Bexis
Today we feature another guest post from our European correspondents, Reed Smith partner Marilyn Moberg and associate Kathryn Bond. There has been another significant decision from the Court of Justice…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : February 23, 2011
As we wait for snow out in Seattle, we had 144 posts come across The LexBlog Network today. As a highlight, we have some great insight on yesterday's Supreme Court…