Medical Center Pharmacy v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• noting the USP is “an independent compendium of drug standards whose authority 9 is recognized by reference in federal law”
• “Construing the FDCA to give the FDA authority over compounding would thus not necessarily ‘lead to a result so bizarre that Congress could not have intended it.’”
• “Construing the FDCA to give the FDA authority over compounding would thus not necessarily ‘lead to a result so bizarre that Congress could not have intended it.’ ”
• “There is no better or more authoritative expression of congressional intent than the statutory text.”
• dismissal for failure to prosecute or failure to comply with court order is reviewed for abuse of discretion
• “[I]t seems unlikely that Congress intended to force compounded drugs to undergo the new drug approval process, a requirement that would have made compounding nearly impossible and thus nonexistent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).