Title
On Drugs: Presumption, Preemption, and Remedy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
This essay explores the role of litigation in drug safety regulation and the role of drug safety regulation in litigation, exemplified by the 2017 National Health Law Moot Court Problem. Using the example of failure-to-update claims against generic drug manufacturers, this essay argues that pharmaceutical preemption doctrine would benefit from a tailored application of the presumption against preemption. It proposes a presumption that Congress does not intend to displace historic state remedies for injury without clearly saying so, focusing on the role of remedy to account for the evolving overlap in federal and state police powers over health and to more precisely calibrate the federalism values inherent in the remedy-regulation relationship.
Recommended Citation
Elizabeth McCuskey, On Drugs: Presumption, Preemption, and Remedy, 38 J. LEGAL. MED. 365 (2019).
Comments
Originally published in 2019 by the Journal of Legal Medicine.