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FDA Announces Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Eliminate Self-Affirmed GRAS and Revise GRAS Review Criteria

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Last week, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the spring 2025 edition of the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda). This semiannual publication outlines the...more

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Whoop vs. FDA

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In FDA regulatory matters, companies must carefully choose when to challenge the government, and when to comply. In a recent case, Whoop, the Boston-based wearable maker, has chosen to openly challenge the U.S. Food and Drug...more

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Vaccine Suspension: FDA Leans Into Its Withdrawal Toolbox, But Will It Invite Challenges?

On August 22, 2025, FDA suspended the biologics license for Ixchiq, one of only two marketed chikungunya vaccines. The decision to suspend comes only a few weeks after FDA approved a Safety Labeling Change supplemental...more

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Is Trouble Brewing for Dietary Ingredients? Court Upholds NYC Kava Ban

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The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently upheld New York City's prohibition on steeped kava beverages, concluding that steeping kava root in water constitutes the creation of an unapproved "food...more

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FDA to rescind laboratory developed test rule

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FDA decided to rescind the LDT rule after declining to appeal a district court decision vacating it. The rule reflected FDA’s latest attempt to regulate LDTs under the same framework as IVDs, which FDA considers medical...more

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Norwich Pharms., Inc. v. Kennedy Jr.

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Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Salix holds NDAs for 200mg and 550mg Xifaxan. The 550mg strength product was approved to treat irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (“IBS-D indication”) and hepatic encephalopathy...more

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Liquidia Techs., Inc. v. FDA - Updated 5.2.25

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Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: FDA refused to approve Liquidia’s drug product, Yutrepia because another company, UTC, maintained marketing exclusivity. Liquidia sued FDA, and UTC intervened. The court granted...more

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In Neurelis v. Brenner, The FDA’s “Indication-Specific” View of Orphan Exclusivity is (Again) Struck Down

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The legal battle over the scope of orphan drug exclusivity continues, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has recently lost a second case concerning the exclusivity provisions of the Orphan Drug Act (“ODA”)....more

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First Circuit Decision Regarding Anti-Kickback Statute Standard Widens Circuit Split and Creates Potential for Supreme Court...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in United States v. Regeneron, has joined the Sixth and Eighth Circuits in adopting the “but-for” standard to find that a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) triggers...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Invites Solicitor General to Submit Briefing on "Skinny Labels"

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On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court invited the Solicitor General to submit a brief expressing the views of the United States—dramatically increasing the likelihood that the Court will eventually grant review—in Hikma...more

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Federal Jurisdiction and Review Standards at Issue in Cases Ranging from Terrorism to Tobacco - SCOTUS Today

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With six more decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court decided no fewer than 11 cases in two business days last week, following 12 others over the previous two weeks. In other words, summer vacation is upon us, as the Court’s...more

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Maybe So, Maybe Not: Mississippi AG’s Office Opines That Mississippi Law Prohibits Most Consumable Hemp Products While Recognizing...

All participants of Mississippi’s cannabis industry should take notice of an opinion the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office published on June 11, 2025. The opinion answered three questions Mississippi Rep. Lee Yancey...more

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A Final Rule Bites the Dust, Part II: FDA Gives up on Regulating LDTs as Medical Devices

As the song goes, the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA’s”) 2024 Final Rule regulating laboratory-developed tests (“LDTs”) as medical devices (“Final Rule”), is not merely dead—it’s really most sincerely dead....more

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Texas District Court Vacates FDA’s Final Rule Expanding Oversight to Laboratory Tests in Hospitals

In our May 2024 Healthcare Alert, we discussed a final rule published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amending its regulations to include in vitro diagnostic products (IVDs), even those manufactured in a...more

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Federal Court Vacates FDA's Final Rule on Laboratory-Developed Tests

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On March 31, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas issued a decision in the case brought by the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) and the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), challenging the FDA’s final rule...more

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Post‑Chevron Spotlight: Federal Court Nixes FDA Rule Reclassifying Laboratory Services as Medical Devices

In another rebuke to federal regulatory overreach, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) has vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2024 final rule that sought to bring...more

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District Court Embraces Loper Bright and Overturns FDA Laboratory Developed Test Rule – What Lies Ahead?

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On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA (“ACLA v. FDA”), a closely watched case...more

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FDA’s Attempt to Regulate Lab-Developed Tests Struck Down in Federal Court

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On March 31, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas vacated the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) rule that sought to regulate laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and...more

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Reissued patents get Hatch-Waxman PTE based on original patent date, CAFC rules

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently considered a novel question regarding calculation of the regulatory review period for patent term extension (PTE) under 35 USC § 156 for reissued patents....more

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Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs) Do Not Qualify as ‘Devices’ Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act

On March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule, in which FDA attempted to assert regulatory authority over laboratory-developed...more

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The LDT Final Rule Bites the Dust: Examining the Repercussions of the Federal Court’s Vacatur and What the Future May Hold

On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests...more

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Protecting Trade Secrets in FDA Submissions from FOIA Disclosure in the Wake of FDA Layoffs

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In the wake of recent mass layoffs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the FDA is likely to have fewer resources to manage its regulatory responsibilities. One area that may be significantly impacted by such...more

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FDA's LDT Rule Struck Down by Court: FDA Has Lost the Battle, But Is the War Over?

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A court has struck down the Food and Drug Administration’s attempt to extend its regulatory authority to clinical laboratory testing services. On March 31, 2025, in the consolidated cases American Clinical Laboratory...more

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Federal Court Strikes Down LDT Final Rule

On March 31, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule under which FDA would have started regulating most laboratory-developed tests...more

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FDA’s LDT Final Rule Rejected by Federal District Court in Texas

As Wilson Sonsini previously reported,1 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been preparing the industry to comply with the 2024 LDT Final Rule, which phases out the FDA’s enforcement discretion policy for...more

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