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China’s Ministry of State Security Sunday issued a message on its WeChat official account, a Chinese instant messaging app, claiming that it had detained the head of an overseas consultancy for spying for the British Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, to collect Chinese secrets and information. The accused, identified as Huang Moumou of [...]

Spanish anitrust agency Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Compentencia (CNMC) Tuesday fined US pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) 39 million euros for abuse of the market. The agency claims that MSD took unjustified legal action against its Spanish competitor Insud Phrama under the false pretense of protecting its patent. According to [...]

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday that the Trump administration does not have the authority to compel drug companies to add the price of medicines to their television advertisements. The case overturned a rule published by that Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that required “drug [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday struck down a final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requiring drug manufacturers to disclose their prices in TV ads. The final rule was an attempt by the Trump administration to combat rising drug prices. Specifically, drug [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday for Merck, Sharp & Dohme that federal preemption of drug warnings is a question for judges. Merck, Sharp & Dohme manufactures the drug Fosamax to treat and prevent osteoporosis in older women. The drug has had a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) label approved since 1995, but the label [...]

The US Senate Finance Committee on Monday invited seven major pharmaceutical companies to the second in a series of hearings exploring the high prices of prescription drugs. Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Ron Wyden sent the invitations to AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Pfizer and Sanofi. Some of those companies were [...]

The Supreme Court began its 2019 term Monday with oral arguments for two cases: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht and Obduskey v. McCarthy & Holthus. In Merck v. Albrecht, the justices must determine whether a state failure-to-warn law claim is pre-empted when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the drug manufacturer’s [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Mary S. Holland from the New York University School of Law discusses the legality of censoring speech on vaccines and autism... In a recent guest column, Professors James G. Hodge, Jr. and Doug Campos-Outcalt explore ways...

Kristen Swift, Widener University School of Law

Melissa Brumer, Fordham University School of Law