The day before this post went live there was a retirement ceremony for Judge Jon P. McCalla, the federal district judge for whom we clerked three decades ago. After serving as an Army officer in the Vietnam War, Judge McCalla got his J.D. from Vanderbilt and clerked for Judge Bailey Brown of the Western District... Continue Reading| Drug & Device Law
If you’re a frequent visitor to the DDL blog, you’ll know all about products liability claims premised on defendants’ alleged failure to report adverse events to the FDA. You’ll also be acutely aware of what we think of such claims—they are flat-out preempted. Much to our dismay, not every court agrees with us. But recently,... Continue Reading| Drug & Device Law
A federal judge in California filed an important OTC preemption decision earlier this month, and it’s important because it applied federal preemption to| Drug & Device Law