Alaska State Employees Association Health Benefit Trust filed a lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Warner-Lambert Co. over its off-label marketing scheme of its top selling epilepsy drug Neurontin.
The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., contends that Pfizer made billions of dollars of fraudulent revenues by promoting Neurontin as [...]

A consumer watchdog group is suing three of the nation�s top wireless companies over an alleged “handset-locking” scheme designed to prevent customers from switching companies.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights group filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against T-Mobile, AT&T and Cingular, alleging the companies insert software in the phones they [...]

New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a civil lawsuit against the British-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline last week, accusing the company of concealing information about the safety and efficacy of its popular anti-depressant drug Paxil.
The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleges that GSK engaged in repeated and persistent fraud [...]

A federal judge in San Francisco Tuesday struck down a federal law that banned partial-birth abortions, ruling that it creates a criminal liability for other legal forms of abortion.
Federal District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton declared the Partial-birth Abortion Act passed by Congress and signed law by President Bush last year is unconstitutional and cannot [...]