{"id":7454,"date":"2012-03-24T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2012-03-24T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T19:38:20","slug":"scrotus-skullduggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/scrotus-skullduggery\/","title":{"rendered":"SCROTUS Skullduggery"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is far from the beaten path.  SCROTUS are the extreme, activist ideologues on SCOTUS, who care more for millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals than for the US Constitution.  Once in a while, SCROTUS does something that obviously has to be wrong, and makes absolutely no sense.  Then comes the light bulb moment.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"SCOTUS4\"Dozens of suits against drug companies have been dismissed in federal and state courts because of a decision by the Supreme Court last year that makes it virtually impossible to sue generic manufacturers for failing to provide adequate warning of a prescription drug\u2019s dangers<\/strong>. This outrageous denial of a patient\u2019s right to recover fair damages makes it imperative that Congress or the Food and Drug Administration fashion a remedy. <\/p>\n

This situation is particularly bizarre because patients using the brand-name drug can sue when those using the generic form of the drug cannot, as explained by Katie Thomas in The Times<\/a> on Wednesday. In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that a Vermont woman who had her hand and forearm amputated because of gangrene after being injected with a brand name antinausea drug could sue the manufacturer for inadequate warning of the risks; she won $6.8 million from Wyeth<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In 2011, the court ruled that similar failure-to-warn suits could not be brought against makers of generic drugs. As a result, an Indiana woman who was also forced to have her hand amputated because of gangrene after being injected with a generic version of the same antinausea drug had her case dismissed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Same drug. Same devastating health consequences. Opposite results<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

There can be no doubt that this is thoroughly unjust.  But why would the fascist five make a decision that appears to favor the generic drug companies over Big Pharma?  Then came the light bulb.  Appearances can be deceiving.  Any consumer, who wishes to preserve their ability to sue in such a case, is forced to pay Big Pharma ten, twenty or more times the actual generic value of the med, thus expanding Big Pharma\u2019s profits.  I think that is the SCROTUS skullduggery in this situation.<\/font><\/p>\n

If a Republican wins the White House, we are guaranteed more ideologue Injustices like Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy, a fate our Constitution cannot survive.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story is far from the beaten path.  SCROTUS are the extreme, activist ideologues on SCOTUS, who care more for millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals than for the US Constitution.  Once in a while, SCROTUS does something that obviously has to be wrong, and makes absolutely no sense.  Then comes the light bulb moment. Dozens […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}