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Health Headlines: July 2025

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Welcome to the sixth issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice....more

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What’s it to You? Justice Scalia’s 41-Year-Old Gatekeeping Question on “Standing” Influences Court to Uphold FDA’s Regulation of...

Mifepristone is safe for now. On June 13, 2024, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the plaintiffs — doctors and medical associations alike — lacked standing to challenge 2000 and 2019 FDA approvals of mifepristone (brand...more

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Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling Doesn't Challenge FDA's Authority

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The U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2024, unanimously ruled that plaintiffs did not have legal standing to challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) actions to establish dosing and availability requirements for...more

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The Supreme Court Update - June 14, 2024

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On Thursday, June 13, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, No. 23-235: This case involves an attempt to rescind the Food and Drug Administration’s...more

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SCOTUS Unanimously Preserves Access to Abortion Pill

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On Thursday, June 13, the Supreme Court maintained access to the abortion pill, mifepristone. This medication, in conjunction with misoprostol, was used in nearly two-thirds of all U.S. abortion and miscarriage treatments...more

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Client Alert: Access to Mifepristone Still Standing for Now, but Questions Remain

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On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Justice Kavanaugh wrote for a unanimous Court dismissing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine from the case for lack of...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to FDA Regulation of Abortion Medication

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In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court rejected efforts to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, overturning an earlier decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court ruled that the...more

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Supreme Court Decides Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

On June 13, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, No. 23-235, together with Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, No. 23-236,...more

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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to FDA Approval of Mifepristone: Impact on Health Plans

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used as part of a two-drug protocol to induce abortion. The Court ruled that...more

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Oral Arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Mifepristone Case Likely to Turn on Article III Standing Requirements

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Nearly two years after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, additional challenges are being brought that may limit access to abortion in the U.S. Mifepristone was originally approved in 2000 by the U.S. Food and...more

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Client Alert: The Supreme Court Signals That Access to Mifepristone Will Likely Remain Safe for Now

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On March 26, 2024, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the two consolidated cases concerning access to mifepristone pending before the Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, Case No. 23-235 and Danco Laboratories,...more

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State Attorneys General Weigh in Amidst Supreme Court Case That Could Restrict Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone

Attorneys general across the country have joined in litigation related to mifepristone, a drug used for medication abortions. A case currently before the Supreme Court, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, could affect...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules to Reinstate Abortion Pill Restrictions

Nearly three months after hearing oral arguments, a divided Fifth Circuit panel issued its decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, upholding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) underlying approval of...more

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Access to Abortion Pill on the Precipice: A Deep Dive into the Federal Court Rulings that will Decide the Fate of Mifepristone 

For a brief moment in time last April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, was curtailed. Just days after a Texas federal judge’s ruling suspended...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

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Supreme Court Issues Stay in Mifepristone Case, Preserving Status Quo for Now

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On April 21, 2023, the Supreme Court granted a stay in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, a case concerning the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of and access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. The...more

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Does the Mifepristone Case Tee Up a Chevron Challenge? - Controversial Abortion Decision May Have Implications for Judicial...

In Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. USFDA, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kasmaryck stayed the FDA approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, disregarding the FDA's medical and scientific judgment to approve the drug 23...more

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Withdrawal of Drug Approval Highlights Risk of Accelerated Approval Pathway

On April 5, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced its decision to withdraw the approval of Makena® hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection (“Makena”) – a drug that was approved in 2011 to reduce the...more

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The Legal Battle Over Mifepristone

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During the past several turbulent weeks for the U.S. health care system, rulings in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA have called into question the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA’s”) scientific...more

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Understanding Recent Litigation on Medication Abortion: A Guide for Health Plan Sponsors

Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court stayed a federal district court order that suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug mifepristone, which is used as part of a two-drug regimen to...more

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Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, has been curtailed following dueling federal court decisions in Texas and Washington. Just days after a Texas...more

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Challenge to the FDA's Approval of Abortion Medication

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On Friday, April 7, both the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Washington issued decisions impacting the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. The Texas decision...more

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Client Alert: What’s Next for Mifepristone?

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Medication abortions using mifepristone and misoprostol now account for more than half of all abortions performed in the United States today. In the post-Dobbs era, medication abortion is critical to reproductive rights...more

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A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Federal Court in Texas Suspends FDA Approval of Medication Abortion Drug Mifepristone Nationwide, While...

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The US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of a federal constitutional right to abortion — has had a tectonic impact. Less than...more

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Mifepristone Update: Texas Judge Probes Extent to Which Court Can Affect the FDA’s Approval

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Although the press was permitted to attend the hearing, news coverage has been limited and without significant detail of the back-and-forth between the judge and the parties. Nevertheless, the judge’s questions, as reported...more

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