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· 5/27/1986

Thompson Medical Company, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission

Citations

  • 791 F.2d 189
  • 253 U.S. App. D.C. 18
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 25182

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that the FDA “has no warrant” to address the defendant’s claim that Aspercreme is more effective than aspirin because “the FDA’s evaluation of OTC drugs only involves a determination of the safety and efficacy of individual drugs”
  • involving false advertising claims relating to an analgesic, the safety and effectiveness of which the FDA had been studying since 1962
  • “[O]urs is an age of overlapping and concurring regulatory jurisdiction.”
  • requiring two well-controlled clinical studies

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Judges: Robinson, Mikva, Ginsburg

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