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Galston On Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation, Larry Alexander Oct 2014

Galston On Religion, Conscience, And The Case For Accommodation, Larry Alexander

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After Caronia: First Amendment Concerns In Off-Label Promotion, Stephanie M. Greene Aug 2014

After Caronia: First Amendment Concerns In Off-Label Promotion, Stephanie M. Greene

San Diego Law Review

The government has successfully prosecuted pharmaceutical companies for off-label promotion of drugs, maintaining that such promotion impermissibly undermines the FDA’s premarket approval process and jeopardizes the public health. In several recent cases, however, pharmaceutical companies have alleged that regulations prohibiting such promotion are unconstitutional because off-label promotion is protected under the First Amendment. Two recent U.S. Supreme Court cases contain language that gives broad protection to advertising and marketing in the pharmaceutical field. This Article questions the reach of these cases as applied to the practice of off-label promotion through detailing.


False Speech: Quagmire?, Christopher P. Guzelian Mar 2014

False Speech: Quagmire?, Christopher P. Guzelian

San Diego Law Review

Recently decided cases in several Federal Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court show that First Amendment false speech case law is contradictory and unpredictable. This Article gives examples and concludes that legal liability for false speech will continue to be arbitrary and even susceptible to intentionally unjust decisionmaking if judges and juries individually and collectively disregard or downplay the necessity of an honest search for truth under the guise of tolerance and evenhandedness. If Americans wish to avoid an anything-goes “quagmire” about truth, they must—despite inevitable resistance in a civilization increasingly rife with skeptics—undergo transformations of their …


How Much Autonomy Do You Want?, Maimon Schwarzschild Jan 2014

How Much Autonomy Do You Want?, Maimon Schwarzschild

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