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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.


Court Of Appeals Of New York - Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Albany V. Serio, Sarah Marx May 2014

Court Of Appeals Of New York - Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Albany V. Serio, Sarah Marx

Touro Law Review

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Smoking Out A Compromise: Splitting The Difference Through A Public Policy Approach To Resolving The Graphic Cigarette Warning Label Circuit Split, Amelia B. Larsen Jan 2014

Smoking Out A Compromise: Splitting The Difference Through A Public Policy Approach To Resolving The Graphic Cigarette Warning Label Circuit Split, Amelia B. Larsen

Cleveland State Law Review

The imposition of graphic warning labels is necessary; the tobacco market exploits the lower class by capitalizing on their under-education regarding the negative health consequences of smoking. This injustice can be corrected by providing the most direct and clear communication imaginable to consumers to ensure they are completely informed of the peril they are placing themselves in when they choose to smoke—the graphic warning labels provide this kind of communication. This Note discusses why the FDA’s warning labels meet First Amendment constitutional scrutiny and serve a substantial governmental interest regarding the country’s public health, socioeconomic equality, and economy. Part II …