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Apr. 29, 2008

For Some, Pre-Emption Looks Like Tort Reform

"There's no question what the end goal is for those who would shut the courtroom doors on our clients," said Lori E. Andrus, a San Francisco plaintiffs' attorney in litigation against a birth control patch.

By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
This article appears on Page 1

      SAN FRANCISCO - Just two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law pre-empts certain lawsuits involving medical devices, Johnson & Johnson used the same legal reasoning to try to fend off claims involving its Ortho Evra birth control patch.
      The argument - that federal law pre-empts stat...

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