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...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Perrigo: Set up by Luther Perrigo in Michigan in 1887, sales exceeded $4bn last year. Its recent €3.6bn purchase of Omega Pharma put it among the top five over-the-counter drugmakers....
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...For Pfizer, a deal would add to its history of megamergers, including its $69bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009 and its $111.8bn deal with Warner-Lambert in 2000....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
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