Legal
Shaun Thaxter, the former chief executive officer of Indivior, was sentenced in federal court Thursday, four months after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of sharing false information about the addictive properties of Suboxone Film, an opioid-based product.
The settlement stems from multi-year criminal and civil investigations into Purdue’s marketing practices related to its powerful prescription painkiller, OxyContin, which critics have argued facilitated the opioid epidemic.
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals has filed new patent infringement lawsuits against Jacobus Pharmaceuticals and PantherRX Rare LLC over a treatment for the rare autoimmune disease Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome.
This week, the judge overseeing her trial denied all efforts from her legal team to dismiss more than a dozen criminal charges against the Theranos founder.
Mallinckrodt has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid growing lawsuits that allege the company has participated in fueling the opioid epidemic in the United States.
Charles M. Lieber is currently on paid leave from Harvard’s chemistry department after his arrest in January on charges of lying to the U.S. government about funds received from China.
A 41-year-old man from Richland, Wash. was convicted on 47 counts of fraud and drug related charges on Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Justice Department’s Eastern District of Washington.
Allele Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals filed lawsuits claiming the companies infringed on Allele’s patented mNeonGreen technology in the development of their COVID-19 treatments.
In the October 2 verdict, Circuit Judge Pauline Newman said that promotional materials, press releases, product catalogs, FDA labels and witness testimony did support the “induced infringement” judgement against Teva.
Philadelphia-based software company eResearchTechnology (ERT), which offers software used in hundreds of clinical trials, has suffered a ransomware attack.
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