{"id":149,"date":"2019-05-24T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/?p=149"},"modified":"2019-05-24T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:13:42","slug":"supreme-court-rules-that-judges-not-juries-must-decide-preemption-of-failure-to-warn-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2019\/05\/24\/supreme-court-rules-that-judges-not-juries-must-decide-preemption-of-failure-to-warn-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules That Judges, Not Juries, Must Decide Preemption of Failure-to-Warn Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a rare unanimous decision in\u00a0<i>Merck Sharp &amp; Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht, et al.<\/i>, holding that judges, not juries, must decide whether state law failure-to-warn claims against brand-name drug manufacturers are preempted by the FDA\u2019s labeling regulations.<i>\u00a0<\/i>In so holding, the Court further clarified the preemption standard set forth in an earlier decision,\u00a0<i>Wyeth v. Levine<\/i>, concluding that such claims are preempted where a drug manufacturer can show \u201cthat it fully informed the FDA of the justifications for the warning required by state law and that the FDA, in turn, informed the drug manufacturer that the FDA would not approve changing the drug\u2019s label to include that warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/supreme_court_rules_judges_must_decide_preemption_failure_warn_claims_0519.html\">View the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a rare unanimous decision in\u00a0Merck Sharp &amp; Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht, et al., holding that judges, not juries, must decide whether state law failure-to-warn claims against brand-name drug manufacturers are preempted by the FDA\u2019s labeling regulations.\u00a0In so holding, the Court further clarified the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/2019\/05\/24\/supreme-court-rules-that-judges-not-juries-must-decide-preemption-of-failure-to-warn-claims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Court Rules That Judges, Not Juries, Must Decide Preemption of Failure-to-Warn Claims&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,372,29,370,373,371,350],"ppma_author":[521],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-klein","tag-failure-to-warn","tag-fda","tag-matthew-decker","tag-preemption","tag-products-liability","tag-scotus"],"authors":[{"term_id":521,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/lifescienceslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}