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CPAP MDL Overinflates Plaintiffs’ Claims

Drug & Device Law

CPAP II shrugs off plaintiffs’ repeated allegations that defendants “failed to apprise the FDA” of this or that, with the excuse that plaintiffs don’t really “rely” on them. We saw more of the same with the discussion of consumer fraud claims in CPAP II. American Home Products , 2005 WL 2277518, at *11 (S.D. 341 (2001).

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Twombly and Iqbal Taken Seriously: Express-Preemption Dismissal

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The plaintiff asserted all the usual claims and then one: manufacturing defect; failure to warn; breach of warranty; and fraud. As readers of this blog are aware, case law is divided over whether alleged CGMP violations can ever support a non-preempted claim (with the more persuasive cases holding that they cannot). McMullen v.

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Logical Contradiction Doctrine:  Buckman for Textualists

Drug & Device Law

For those of you accessing the Blog on mobile devices, this post may be hard to read. 470 (1996), was decided – removing express preemption as a defense for manufacturers of §510(k) products So defendants moved on fraud on the FDA under an implied preemption theory and won. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. Lohr , 518 U.S.

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