Posts tagged preemption

• House Financial Services panel debates federal preemption in CFPA.

  Wayne Parsons | October 21, 2009 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Washington Post (10/21, Dennis) reports that the House Financial Services Committee continued to wrangle over a provision that would allow state governments to protect bank customers by imposing...

• Democrats Stuck Again Over Creation of Consumer Financial Protection Agency

  Wayne Parsons | October 02, 2009 3:57 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Politico (9/30, McGrane) reported, Creation of a new consumer protection agency is still uncertain, as Democrats fight over whether federal laws should trump those written by individual states. A...

• Obama undoes Bush pre-emption policies.

  Wayne Parsons | May 21, 2009 2:21 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The AP (5/21, Yost) reports, The Obama White House on Wednesday undid a Bush administration policy that used federal regulations to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental...

• Federal Departments and Agencies Announcing Regulations that Pre-empt State Laws Won't Do So Without a Sufficient Legal Basis

  Wayne Parsons | May 20, 2009 7:39 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  All Americans can celebrate the breaking news regarding a landmark achievement that was announced today in Washington D.C. From now on, the regulatory preemption of state common law will be strictly...

• House lawmakers hear debate over medical device preemption.

  Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law...

• Tort Reform For Victims of Unsafe Medical Devices: Pass The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009

  Wayne Parsons | May 13, 2009 6:23 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Hearings began on Tuesday, May 12th before the Subcommittee on Health on H.R. 1346, The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009. I explain it below but before you go any further make sure to read the...

• Stalled suits against drugmakers proceeding after Supreme Court preemption decision.

  Wayne Parsons | April 30, 2009 12:16 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News (4/30, Fisk, Feeley) reports, Just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided patients can sue drugmakers over injuries from medicines approved by the government, long-stalled...

• Federal Preemption Puts Consumers At Risk According To Observers

  Wayne Parsons | March 23, 2009 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register (3/20) Joel Olah, executive director of aging resources of central Iowa, wrote, Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of...

• Court Rules That Generic Drug Manufacturer Cannot Use "Preemption" To Avoid Liability

  Wayne Parsons | January 15, 2009 3:53 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A recent court decision holds that generic drug manufacturers cannot use federal preemption to avoid liability for failing to warn of their drugs' dangers. The court in Kellogg v. Wyeth held, as...

• Bush Administration Midnight Regulations On Preemption Take Away Right To Sue

  Wayne Parsons | December 18, 2008 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In a story about the Bush administration's midnight regulations, focusing on the efforts at pre-empting lawsuits in state courts, MSNBC with Keith Olberman (12/16, 8:32 PM EST) reported that: in...