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Pliva, Inc. Vs. Mensing

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 23, 2011

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  6. Auer Vs. Robbins US Supreme Court · Feb 19, 1997
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  8. PLIVA, Inc., et al. v. Mensing
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  9. Actavis Elizabeth, LLC v. Mensing
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  10. Actavis, Inc., v. Demahy
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  11. Syllabus October Term, 2010 Pliva, Inc. V. Mensing
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  12. s fair and considered judgment. Auer v. Robbins
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  13. b) Where state and federal law directly conflict, state law must give way. See, e.g., Wyeth v. Levine
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  14. on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
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  15. Opinion of the Court Pliva, Inc. V. Mensing
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  16. of patients who take metoclopramide for several years develop this condition. McNeil v. Wyeth
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  17. none of the Manufacturers had changed their labels to adequately warn of that danger. Mensing v. Wyeth
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  18. see also Demahy v. Actavis
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  19. Frey v. Montgomery
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  20. Stahl v. Novartis
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  21. West 2009). In both States, a duty to warn falls specifically on the manufacturer. See Marks v. OHMEDA
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  22. Gray v. Badger
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  23. Gaeta v. Perrigo
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  24. Foster v. American
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  25. see also Crosby v. National
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  26. courts went to great lengths attempting to harmonize conflicting statutes, in order to avoid implied repeals. Warder v. Arell
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  27. Heirs v. Johnston
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  28. Doolittle v. Bryan
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  29. Cuomo v. Clearing
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  30. a brand-name drug), and thus identical in active ingredients, safety, and efficacy. See, e.g., United States v. Generix
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  31. Footnote 3 The brief filed by the United States represents the views of the FDA. Cf. Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan
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  32. s ultimate conclusion about whether state law should be pre-empted. Wyeth v. Levine
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  33. J., dissenting). Nor do they contain any saving clause to expressly preserve state tort claims. Cf. Williamson v. Mazda
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  34. quoting Hines v. Davidowitz
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  35. see also Rice v. Norman
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  36. Sotomayor, J., Dissenting Pliva, Inc. V. Mensing
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  37. out of thin air to justify its dilution of the impossibility standard. It effectively rewrites our decision in Wyeth v. Levine
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  38. pre-emption defense. State law obliged the Manufacturers to warn of dangers to users. See Hines v. Remington
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  39. Wyeth , 555 U. S., at 565 (quoting Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr
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  40. Crosby v. National
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  41. Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee
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  42. Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
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  43. pre-emption of state law. Rice v. Norman
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  44. see also Gade v. National
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  45. see, e.g. , Geier v. American
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  46. Rice v. Santa
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  47. of express pre-emption, we read federal statutes whenever possible not to pre-empt state law. See Altria Group, Inc. v. Good
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  48. the Fifth Circuit. PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
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  49. McNeil v. Wyeth
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  50. Mensing v. Wyeth
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