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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Courts - "Two More 'Iqbal' Dismissals Emerge in Product Liability Cases"
Updating earlier ILB "Iqbal" entries, Alison Frankel reports today in the The American Lawyer in a story that begins:
The Supreme Court's May 2009 ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal is quickly becoming the best thing to happen to the products liability defense bar since Daubert. We told you a couple of weeks ago about the dismissal of a false-marketing suit involving AstraZeneca's anti-psychotic drug Seroquel because it didn't meet the new, tougher pleading standard the Court laid down in Iqbal. Now we have word of two other recent Iqbal dismissals involving controversial products. No wonder Sen. Arlen Specter is on the warpath against Iqbal.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 4, 2009 09:29 AM
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