The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday disclosed documents of a lawsuit it filed three weeks ago challenging the FBI’s ability to demand sensitive customer records from businesses without judicial oversight.
The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York on April 6, but the ACLU said the case was kept under seal to avoid […]

A Texas jury awarded $1 billion to the family of a woman who died from lung disease that the plaintiff’s lawyers said was caused by her use of the diet drug Pondimin, also known as Fen-Phen.
Lawyers for the Pharmaceutical giant Wyeth, which made the diet drug, said they would appeal the verdict, in a […]

Pregnancy and powerful acne medicines like Accutane don’t mix. That’s the message pregnancy counselors with the Organization of Teratology Information Services are trying to convey to pregnant women, health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and decision-makers in the federal government.
OTIS, a nonprofit organization that conducts research and provides education on the effects of drugs and chemicals […]

Some antidepressants may actually do more harm than good to depressed children, according to an analysis of unpublished data that pharmaceutical companies may have been hiding from the public.
The study, published in the April issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, reviewed both published data and unpublished data on the effects of antidepressants and […]

Flaws in the design and performance of safety belts leave vehicle occupants vulnerable to serious and often-fatal injuries in rollover crashes, says a report by Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
“Safety belts are currently the most important safety feature that would keep people secure and inside the vehicle during a rollover crash,” said Public Citizen […]

Majority Council, an organization of plaintiff lawyers who represent consumers injured by the diet drugs Pondimin or Redux, Tuesday said the $3.75 billion trust fund setup to compensate Fen-Phen victims is bust.
The group said that only 3,000 victims of the nearly 100,000 cases filed with the Trust have received the compensation they were promised […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world, Monday launched a campaign to combat what it says are the chilling effects bad patents have on public and consumer interests.
“Patents traditionally only targeted large commercial companies,” said EFF Staff Attorney Jason Schultz in a prepared statement issued on […]

Parker & Waichman, LLP and Douglas & London LLP Monday announced the first nationwide class action lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Company on behalf of all persons residing in the United States who used the atypical antipsychotic drug Zyprexa.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, seeks relief […]

The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit asking a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the National Audit Defense Network.
In court papers filed in a U.S. District Court in Law Vegas, the government said that NADN has sold fraudulent tax schemes, including phony web site businesses, to an estimated […]

Pfizer, the world’s biggest drugs company, said it has filed a lawsuit against the operator of look4generics.com, an Internet distributor of generic drugs, for selling an “unapproved copy” of the cholesterol drug Lipitor.
The Lipitor copy is marketed as Storvas. The site claims the copy is made by Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, India’s largest pharmaceutical company.
The Lawsuit, filed […]