Dowhal v. Smithkline Beecham Consumer Healthcare

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that an FDA “letter established a federal policy prohibiting defendants from giving consumers any warning other than the one approved by the FDA in that letter, and that the use of a [warning required by state law] would conflict with that policy”
• concluding that an FDA “letter established a federal policy prohibiting defendants from giving consumers any warning other than the one approved by the FDA in that letter, and that the use of a [warning required by state law] would conflict with that policy”
• “Warnings through point-of-sale posters or public advertising could have the same effect of frustrating the purpose of federal policy.”
• plaintiffs case preempted by federal law when defendant asked the FDA for permission to change the label and the FDA denied the request
• FDA letters to drug manufacturers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).