Sentence examples for drug litigation from inspiring English sources
American Home took a pretax charge of $4.75 billion in 1999 for the diet drug litigation.
But what counts in drug litigation is the information that goes to doctors, who are in charge of prescribing medicines.
"We've got plenty of a war chest," said J. Michael Papantonio, a lawyer in Pensacola, Fla., who is a leader in drug litigation.
James J. Pepper, a lawyer in Pennsylvania who is involved in drug litigation, has been arguing for months in letters to government officials that Seroquel has a potentially deadly interaction with methadone in regard to the QT interval.
But with a treatment that slows progress of the disease possibly selling at more than $20,000 a year, the company's Alzheimer's program is one reason that some analysts are voicing renewed enthusiasm about Wyeth's stock, which had been weighed down for years by costly fen-phen diet drug litigation.
By contrast, the 320,000 claimants in the Wyeth (formerly American Home Products) diet drug litigation will share $13 billion.
For more than 25 years, he has defended pharmaceutical companies, including for 12 years as national and chief trial counsel for Wyeth in its diet drug litigations.
"The political and legal atmosphere is really changing," said Graham A. Boyd, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's drug policy litigation project, which has brought most of the school cases.
"It's a tremendously important step that Yale took," said Graham Boyd, the national director of the A.C.L.U.'s drug policy litigation project.
It was that ruling that the Pottawatomie district was challenging today and that Mr. Boyd, director of the civil liberties union's drug policy litigation project, was defending on behalf of the Earls family.
Graham Boyd, who is with the New Haven office of the American Civil Liberties Union and directs the group's drug policy litigation project, is one of the lawyers representing the owners and promoters of a New Orleans electronic music club, the State Palace.
