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Warnings
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Food Poison Journal
CDPH Issues Warning not to Eat Cucumbers Distributed by Andrew and Williamson Fresh Produce due to Salmonella
California Department of Public Health (CDPH) State Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith today warned people not to eat garden cucumbers imported from Mexico and distributed by Andrew & Williamson Fresh…
Stoel Rives Environmental Law
New Proposed Proposition 65 Warning Requirements: What You Need To Know
The California Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”) recently released its long anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing changes to the warning requirements under Proposition 65’s (“Prop 65”)…
Drug & Device Law
Who Heeds The Heeding Presumption?
By Bexis
We’ve made no secret of our distaste for the so called “heeding presumption” – that juries may presume that any alternative “adequate” warning would have been heeded by the plaintiff (or, in prescription…
Product Liability & Mass Torts Blog
California Sugar Rush: Proposal Requiring Warning Labels for Sweet Drinks Falls Short
California's attempt to become the first state to require warning labels on soft drinks and other sugary beverages has failed. State Senator Bill Monning’s proposed legislation would have required sodas…
Food Safety News
Soda Warning Label Rejected by California Assembly Health Committee
By Lydia Zuraw
California’s bill to add warning labels to sugar-sweetened beverages has stalled in the state’s Assembly Health Committee. The state Senate passed the bill last month but fell three votes short…
Consumer Products Counselor
Are Sugary Drink Warnings Coming to California?
California isn't exactly known as a business-friendly state. In some ways, the governor has tried to change that. He'll have an interesting choice to make if a recently-passed senate bill…
Drug & Device Law
Warnings Causation Carries the Day Again
The defendant in Parkinson v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., No. 3:12-cv-02089, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36677 (D. Or. Mar. 20, 2014), won summary judgment on warnings causation because the alleged inadequacy…
Drug & Device Law
Little Lists 2 – Warning Causation Dismissal Where Prescriber Not Deposed
By Bexis
Here’s another “little list” that came about because of Bexis updating chapter two (information-based claims) of his book. This one includes all cases where, due to the ordinary burden of proof, warning claims…
The Real Estate & Environmental Law Blog
New Proposed Prop 65 Warning Label Regulations
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) under the auspices of Governor Brown's declaration in May 2013 (after a failed legislative effort) that he would further reform Prop 65, last…
Drug & Device Law
On Overwarning
By Bexis
We’ve covered a lot of topics since we started DDLaw in late 2006. One that we haven’t addressed in any real fashion is overwarning – except for an unusual allegation made by a…