McNeil Seeks Supreme Court Opinion On OTC Labeling Pre-emption
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
McNeil Consumer Healthcare argues in a consumer injury lawsuit that the Supreme Court's 2009 decision in Wyeth v. Levine does not apply to nonprescription pharmaceuticals because OTC and Rx drugs are covered by different regulatory labeling schemes.
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