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Making Liquor Immunity Worse: Nevada's Undue Protection Of Commercial Hosts Evicting Vulnerable And Dangerous Patrons, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jun 2014

Making Liquor Immunity Worse: Nevada's Undue Protection Of Commercial Hosts Evicting Vulnerable And Dangerous Patrons, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Nevada Law Journal

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When Truth Cannot Be Presumed: The Regulation Of Drug Promotion Under An Expanding First Amendment, Christopher Robertson Jan 2014

When Truth Cannot Be Presumed: The Regulation Of Drug Promotion Under An Expanding First Amendment, Christopher Robertson

Faculty Scholarship

The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) requires that, prior to marketing a drug, the manufacturer must prove that it is safe and effective for the manufacturer’s intended uses, as shown on the proposed label. Nonetheless, physicians may prescribe drugs for other “off-label” uses, and often do so. Still, manufacturers have not been allowed to promote the unproven uses in advertisements or sales pitches.

This regime is now precarious due to an onslaught of scholarly critiques, a series of Supreme Court decisions that enlarge the First Amendment, and a landmark court of appeals decision holding that the First Amendment precludes …