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4th Circuit En Banc Judgment Affirms District Court Decision in Best Price Stacking Case

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In November 2020, we blogged about a decision by the Federal District Court of Maryland dismissing a Federal False Claims Act (FCA) qui tam suit alleging that Forest Laboratories knowingly reported inflated best prices under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP), resulting in underpayment of rebates.

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National Crackdown on Protests Spreads to Boston

The Crime Report

Public officials in Maine, Maryland, Michigan and California have already proposed or passed measures to curb what they say is a rise in targeted harassment related to demonstrations against public vaccination efforts and pandemic rules, reports the Wall Street Journal. limiting hours for protests aimed at a particular home.

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L.A. County Police Refuse Release of Officer History on Misconduct, Dishonesty

The Crime Report

Based on a 1963 Supreme Court decision, Brady vs. Maryland , prosecutors have a constitutional duty to give defense attorneys evidence that could cast doubt on a defendant’s guilt or reduce a potential sentence, including information that could diminish the credibility of prosecution witnesses.

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Justices dismiss “civil rights tester” case

SCOTUSBlog

In her view, before a court invalidates the lower court’s decision on fairness grounds, the party seeking to have the decision invalidated ‘must explain what harm — other than having to accept the law as the lower court stated it — flows from the inability to appeal the lower court decision.”

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More Venue and Corporate Games: This time with ANDA filing

Patently O

The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. The FDA is headquartered in Maryland, and that was the office that received the ANDA documents. and probably also in Maryland, but not in N.J. Celgene Corp. Mylan Pharma ( Fed.

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Does Science Still Matter at the Supreme Court?

The Crime Report

By allowing judges to ignore such considerations when sentencing a young person to die behind bars, the recent Supreme Court decision promises to further inequity. Even the victim’s wife agreed, underscoring that Jones, like other youth, is indeed redeemable and can work towards atoning for his heinous acts.

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Cities, counties, and states score major procedural win in climate liability suits against fossil fuel companies

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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