135 ABA Journal Healthcare & Pharmaceutics articles.
Companies arguing that their federally regulated products are not subject to state court lawsuits could face difficulties absent an express congressional pronouncement after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Mar 5, 2009 2:14 PM CST
Federal prosecutors are reportedly readying indictments for the Blackwater Worldwide guards who are alleged to have participated in the 2007 shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians. The shootings left 17 dead…
Dec 4, 2008 11:34 PM CST
A federal appeals court considered yesterday whether Virginia’s method of lethal injection is constitutional.
The oral arguments before the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were the first…
May 15, 2008 3:55 PM CDT
William Earl Lynd was put to death in Georgia last night, the first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s widely…
May 7, 2008 1:00 PM CDT Lawyers for death row inmates will try to show that the lethal injection procedures in their states are different from Kentucky’s after yesterday’s U.S. Supreme…
Apr 17, 2008 10:48 AM CDT Lawyers representing plaintiffs in lawsuits alleging injuries for medical devices were bracing for waves of dismissal motions after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Wednesday. The court Feb 22, 2008 4:50 PM CST Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in three federal pre-emption cases, favoring federal laws over state regulation and common-law lawsuits, SCOTUSblog reports. In Riegel v. Medtronic, the…
Feb 20, 2008 3:57 PM CST Lawyers challenging lethal injection procedures have been hampered by states’ refusal to disclose details about the three-drug cocktail and the identity of executioners. But justices’ questions in Jan 7, 2008 4:03 PM CST The New York Times and the Washington Post have published editorials opposing Kentucky’s method of lethal injections as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue today. Both newspapers oppose…
Jan 7, 2008 2:00 PM CST All 36 states that use lethal injections for capital punishment administer a three-drug cocktail, despite the availability of a single drug likely to eliminate possible pain. Experts told the An Eighth Amendment challenge comes before the high court Jan 1, 2008 9:33 PM CST Exactly 25 years ago today, strapped to a gurney in a Texas death chamber, 40-year-old Charlie Brooks Jr. became the first person in the U.S. to be executed by lethal…
Dec 7, 2007 11:20 PM CST Updated: Several justices wondered in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments yesterday whether juries in product liability cases should be allowed to consider the safety of a medical device that has…
Dec 5, 2007 12:48 PM CST More school districts are likely to consider income as a race neutral way to achieve school diversity in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision striking down two school integration…
Jun 29, 2007 5:48 PM CDT A scientific analysis concludes drugs used in lethal injections can cause excruciating pain. The drug cocktail is supposed to make the inmate unconscious before his muscles are paralyzed and death…
Apr 24, 2007 3:39 PM CDTDeath Penalty Opponents See Litigation Roadmap in Lethal Injection Decision
Riegel Will Affect Many—But Not All—Medical Device Suits
Court Finds Pre-Emption in Rulings Trio on Medical Devices, Tobacco Regs, Arbitration
Justices’ Questions Could Shine Light on Lethal Injection Secrecy
NYT and WaPo Oppose Ky. Lethal Injection Procedure
No State Wants to Be First to Change Lethal Injection Method
Tinkering with Lethal Injection
25th Birthday for Lethal Injections
Scalia Deems Medical Device Liability ‘Extraordinary’
Integration Plan B Uses Income
Report: Lethal Injection Cocktail Flawed
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