FDA
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Courts
FDA Faces Lawsuit For Daring To Tell People Not To Ingest Horse Dewormer
Imagine if they would have told teenagers to not eat Tide Pods. The horror! -
Courts
The 'Skinny Labels' Case Will Have A Huge Impact On The Affordability Of Healthcare
I wish staying healthy could be cheaper. - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Technology
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Hearing Aids Are About To Be Way More Accessible!
Just in time to hear Trumpy Poo whine about being subject to the rule of law!
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Marijuana
The FDA And Hemp CBD: The States Have A Grab Bag Of Hemp CBD Regulations (Part II)
States have already adopted their own legal approaches to regulating hemp CBD products that are not necessarily consistent with the FDA’s. -
Marijuana
The FDA And Hemp CBD: Can’t We All Just Get Along? (Part I)
Will the FDA cease its enforcement actions against hemp CBD companies? -
Government
Spark Therapeutics’ New FDA Approval Shows Gene Therapies Are Officially On Fire
Gene Therapy has arrived. -
FDA, Marijuana
Fear And Loathing: The FDA And Marijuana Medical Claims
Thus far, the FDA has kept its nose out of state-legal medical cannabis, but it remains a sleeping giant. -
Health Care / Medicine, Privacy
It’s Time To Preempt State Medical Privacy Laws That Differ From HIPAA
Navigating regulatory hurdles in digital health. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Health Care / Medicine
4 Key Compliance Issues For Medical Device Companies
Often, important compliance issues are missed. -
Politics
President Trump: Keep Your Peter (Thiel) Out Of Our FDA Politics
The name Peter Thiel means many things to many people. -
FDA, Gay, Health Care / Medicine
FDA Reconsiders Ban On Gay Blood -- Related: The FDA Still Bans Gay Blood????
Orlando might have been the last straw for this rule that was never fair and was obviated by science over a decade ago. -
Health Care / Medicine, Small Law Firms
Test Case: Vampire Diaries — I Donate Blood For The First Time (Plus Bonus Rant About FDA Restrictions)
If you want to give blood, there is very likely a blood drive near you ready and willing to take it. -
Family Law, Health Care / Medicine, Kids
I Want To Put A Baby In You: #1 Sperm Donor
Ladies, get in line quickly -- this professor thinks he might be getting too old to donate more sperm.
Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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FDA, Tobacco / Smoking
Thank God: The FDA Is Coming To Regulate This Crap I’m Vaping Into My Body
The government is here to help Vapers. -
Marijuana
'No CBD For You!' As FDA Threatens Legal Action Against CBD Cannabis Companies
Even though marijuana is federally illegal, cannabis companies do not have a license to violate other federal regulations, including those of the FDA. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.29.16
* “This is, since the recession, the most robust job growth we’ve seen.” Nearly all students who worked at Biglaw firms this past summer as associates received offers of full-time employment. Offer rates haven’t been this high in more than a decade. [National Law Journal]
* Mommy, wow! I’m a big kid now! Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was finally deported from Mexico and booked into a juvenile detention center. Today, we’ll see if he’ll be moved to a big-boy jail, and in February, we’ll see if his case is moved to the grown-up court system. [Associated Press]
* Sorry, Hillary Clinton, but President Obama has no desire to be on SCOTUS. According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, while Obama “would have plenty of ideas for how he would do a job like that,” he “may have other things to do.” [The Hill]
* It’s so hard to get execution drugs that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking state legislators for alternative methods for carrying out death sentences, like death by firing squad, electrocution, and hanging. Seems reasonable? [Reuters]
* Arizona is so eager to kill people it hired Alston & Bird to go up against the Food and Drug Administration in the state’s quest to obtain the release of a shipment of execution drugs that it had imported to the country from India this summer. [BuzzFeed News]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.07.16
* The statute of limitations giveth, and the statute of limitations taketh away. Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to charge Bill Cosby in a case where a woman claimed that the comedian raped her in 1965 when she was 17 years old. [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]
* Apparently sick and tired of people continuing to just waive in, the D.C. Court of Appeals is considering allowing third-year law students to take the D.C. bar up to 190 days before they even graduate, making it the most permissive early bar program in the country. [Blog of Legal Times]
* This is apparently the new way for law firms of all sizes to survive and thrive: Per Altman Weil, 2015 was yet another record year for law firm mergers and acquisitions, with 91 announced over the course of the year. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]
* Congratulations to Elizabeth “Betty” Temple, the first woman to serve as chair and CEO of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice. She joins about two handfuls of other women who are leading some of the country’s largest law firms. You go, girl! [WSJ Law Blog]
* “The food-borne illness costs extra. Is that okay?” Thanks to numerous food scares and an outbreak of norovirus, Chipotle now finds itself at the center of a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the Central District of California and the FDA. [AP]
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FDA
Facing #WhitePeopleProblems Head On, FDA Addresses Tanning Salons And Children
FDA takes a stand against tans. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 05.15.15
* Lance Armstrong is feuding, again, with former teammate Floyd Landis — this time over discovery [National Law Journal]
* Remember July 2014 when we all learned that ExamSoft — the bar examination software — totally crapped out on test takers? Yeah, they just reached a $2.1 million settlement. #NeverForgetBarghazi [Law360]
* Rejoice haters of measles and other preventable diseases! California is moving to end “personal belief exemptions” for mandatory vaccines. [NPR]
* In oral arguments for an appeal of the conviction of Jesse Litvak, a bond trader convicted of securities fraud involving government bailout funds, the Second Circuit was skeptical over the fairness of the trial. [New York Law Journal]
* The FDA finally arrives in the year 2015; plans to ease restrictions on gay blood donors. [Jurist]
* Senate Judiciary Committee recommends prosecutor Robert Capers the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, filling Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s vacancy. [Wall Street Journal]
* An analysis of who the winners will be under Google’s new plan to buy up patents before the trolls. [JD Supra]