As the fraud trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes headlines the pharma legal news, other court-related cases are taking place, including a ruling in the legal spat between Takeda and AbbVie over a supply agreement for the prostate cancer drug Lupron.
A U.S. appeals court on Aug. 26 threw out a $1.2 billion ruling against Gilead Sciences Inc., finding a patent on a cancer therapy the company was accused of infringing was invalid, in a blow to rival Bristol Myers Squibb Co.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to revive pilot programs adopted by the states of Arkansas and New Hampshire that allow work requirements to be imposed on people who receive healthcare under the Medicaid program for the poor.
A federal appeals court threw out an order requiring AbbVie Inc. and a partner to disgorge $448 million in profit for trying to keep generic versions of the blockbuster testosterone replacement drug AndroGel off the market.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Merck & Co. – at least for now – by throwing out a lower court ruling that had revived hundreds of lawsuits accusing the company of failing to properly warn patients of debilitating thigh-bone fractures from taking the osteoporosis drug Fosamax.
