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Matushek, Nilles & Sinars, L.L.C. Opens Peoria County Office.

We are very pleased to announce that we opened our Peoria County office in March, 2011 to more effectively serve our clients in Central Illinois. Joining us in our Peoria County office is Cathy A. Molchin, who is well known in Peoria and neighboring areas as an tireless advocate for defendants, and who possesses more than two decades of trial experience.

 For additional news, go to our link on Firm News.

Supreme Court rejects lawsuits over generic drug warning labels

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23, 2011 that generic drug companies cannot be sued under state law over allegations that they failed to provide adequate label warnings about potential side effects. By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled in favor of Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Mylan Inc.'s UDL Laboratories and Iceland-based Actavis Inc. by overturning U.S. appeals court rulings that allowed such lawsuits.
The companies argued that federal law barred such lawsuits because the drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Federal law requires generic drugs to have the same labels as their brand name equivalents. Justice Clarence Thomas and the court's majority agreed, and said federal drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflicted with and thus pre-empted state lawsuits.

For more resources on legal developments, go to our links on Supreme Court Decisions and Legal Updates.