Thu, 23 Jun 2011

Supreme Court sides with pharmaceutical industry in two decisions

Unbelievable!

By this logic, if I start building Ford Pinto clones, whose patents have expired and so is now a "generic" product, the suckers who buy them can't sue me when they explode in a rear end collision because Ford didn't warn of that danger when they manufactured the Pinto.

The second ruling is even more incredible.

Can doctors now sell their patients medical records? If not, why not? How will this impact the Privacy Rule?

Following this reasoning, lawyers should now be able to sell all of their conversations with clients to the highest bidder. First Amendment, you know. Guess we'll have to wait to see how that proposition fares in the courts.

Justices rule that generic drug makers cannot be sued by injured patients in most cases and that drug manufacturers have a 1st Amendment right to buy private prescription records to use for marketing purposes.

(link) [LA Times]

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