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Immunity Through Bankruptcy For The Sackler Family, Daniel G. Aaron, Michael S. Sinha
Immunity Through Bankruptcy For The Sackler Family, Daniel G. Aaron, Michael S. Sinha
All Faculty Scholarship
In August 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked one of the largest public health settlements in history: that of Purdue Pharma, L.P., reached in bankruptcy court. The negotiated bankruptcy settlement approved by the court would give a golden parachute to the very people thought to have ignited the opioid crisis: the Sackler family. As the Supreme Court considers the propriety of immunity through bankruptcy, the case has raised fundamental questions about whether bankruptcy is a proper refuge from tort liability and whether law checks power or law serves power.
Of course, bankruptcy courts often limit liability against a distressed …
Improving Access To Emerging Lifesaving Drugs: Solving The Disclosure Problem Within The Patent Dance, Michael J. Schellhous
Improving Access To Emerging Lifesaving Drugs: Solving The Disclosure Problem Within The Patent Dance, Michael J. Schellhous
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
Biologics are a growing class of pharmaceutical drugs and are associated with a significant portion of major medical breakthroughs over the past fifty years. However, in comparison with traditional small-molecule drugs, biologics are vastly more complex, more difficult to manufacture, and extremely expensive. Congress passed the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) in an effort to increase the availability of biosimilars—the generic versions of biologic drugs—but the BPCIA has been largely ineffective. This is due, in part, to the lack of a standard regarding initial information disclosures required at the outset of the BPCIA process, leading to a cumbersome …
Regulatory Malfunctions In The Drug Patent Ecosystem, Ana Santos Rutschman
Regulatory Malfunctions In The Drug Patent Ecosystem, Ana Santos Rutschman
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Patent protection for several of the world’s best-selling and most promising drugs — biologics — has begun waning. Over the next few years, many other drugs in this category will lose critical patent protection. In principle, this should open the United States market to competition, as more manufacturers are now able to produce relatively cheaper versions of these expensive drugs, known as biosimilars. That, however, has not been the case. This Article examines this problem in the context of the articulation between anticompetitive behaviors and regulatory interventions in the biopharmaceutical arena, and argues for a novel solution: a timelier response …
Masking The Executioner And The Source Of Execution Drugs, Sandra Davidson, Michael Barajas
Masking The Executioner And The Source Of Execution Drugs, Sandra Davidson, Michael Barajas
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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Introducing Patient Scope Of Care: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, And The Privilege To Prescribe Drugs, Rachel P. Berland
Introducing Patient Scope Of Care: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, And The Privilege To Prescribe Drugs, Rachel P. Berland
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
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Independent Clinical Trials To Test Drugs: The Neglected Reform, Marc A. Rodwin
Independent Clinical Trials To Test Drugs: The Neglected Reform, Marc A. Rodwin
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
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The Impact Of Drugs Upon Sentencing Policy, Gerald F. Uelmen
The Impact Of Drugs Upon Sentencing Policy, Gerald F. Uelmen
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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It Is A “War On Drugs” And It Is Time To Reload Our Weapons: An Interpretation Of 21 U.S.C. § 841, Kristin J. Balding
It Is A “War On Drugs” And It Is Time To Reload Our Weapons: An Interpretation Of 21 U.S.C. § 841, Kristin J. Balding
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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