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Mifepristone Manufacturer Wins First Round in West Virginia

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at *1, by threatening to revoke the license, and jail for at least three years, any West Virginia physician so bold as to prescribe the plaintiff’s FDA-approved drug for its FDA-approved use. First, relief was not dependent on “third-party action” – that of prescribing physicians and intermediate distributors. at *6 (citations omitted).

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” See also Rodriguez v.

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NPP, DCC, And FDA-Regulated Medical Products

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You never need an authorization from a licensed professional to buy pork or fireworks. They can regulate doctors, pharmacies, and grocery stores, but cannot ban an FDA-approved drug like they can pork that comes from pigs not raised in a specific way, the gist of the California law at issue in NPP. Prescription drugs are not.

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Suing the Certifiers – A Dangerous Undertaking

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Apparently, a fraudulent foreign-trained “doctor” treated the plaintiffs, none of whom claimed malpractice or any physical injury whatsoever. Anyway, this fraudulent “doctor” allegedly “touched them without informed consent” and caused them “emotional distress. 23 in its current form. at *3) Rule 23(c)(4) partial class.