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Showing posts with label State AGs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State AGs. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Monday, October 24, 2016
Former Democrat Attorney General Of Pennsylvania Sentenced To Jail Time
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Via The Daily Beast:
Thank You Daily Beast and ZipThe former attorney general of Pennsylvania, who was convicted in August on nine criminal charges, including perjury and conspiracy, was sentenced Monday to 10 to 23 months in jail. Kathleen Kane, 50, left office in August while facing the charges for having orchestrated a leak of secret grand-jury documents to plant a negative story about her political opponent, former state prosecutor Frank Fina.Kane was also later found to have lied about her actions under oath. Instead of jail time, the former top attorney sought either probation or house arrest instead of jail time. During her sentencing hearing, Kane reportedly said, “I don’t care what happens to me,” but pleaded with the judge to have “mercy” on her two sons, whom she said a jail sentence would affect the hardest.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Arkansas AG McDaniel To Ask State Supreme Court To Revisit Its Reversal of $1.2 B Risperdal Case Against J&J
from The State, South Carolina's Homepage;
Little Rock Ark.: Arkansas To Ask Court To Reconsider Drug Fine
Associated PressApril 3, 2014
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Thursday he plans to ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider its decision tossing out a $1.2 billion judgment against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson over the marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
McDaniel told the Arkansas Code Revision Commission that he would file a petition asking the court to revisit last month's ruling that the state misapplied the Medicaid fraud law in its suit against Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceutical Inc. The state alleged the companies didn't properly communicate Risperdal's risks and marketed it for off-label use, calling the practices fraudulent.
The Arkansas Cod Revisions Commission voted to provide McDaniel's office with an analysis comparing the 1993 law as it was passed to the way it was written into state code. The commission is responsible for making technical corrections to state code.
Read More Here.
Hat Tip for the Risperdal Branded Legos pic to The Fix.
"The state alleged the companies didn't properly communicate Risperdal's risks and marketed it for off-label use, calling the practices fraudulent."
And that ain't a tenth of the tenth of it.
This is Tardive Dyskinesia, a Direct Effect of Neuroleptics like Risperdal, in an adult.
And they branded Legos with the product name.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Arkansas Supreme Court Overturns $1.2 Billion Verdict Against J&J/Janssen/Risperdal
via MadInAmerica;
Arkansas Court Overturns $1.2 Billion Verdict Against J&J
March 20, 2014
The Arkansas Supreme Court today overturned a $1.2 billion judgment against Johnson & Johnson, ruling that laws requiring companies to properly communicate risks and use of drugs applies to health care companies, not pharmaceutical companies. ”I am disappointed that the Court viewed the law differently. Nevertheless, I will keep working to protect consumers against fraud and the kinds of irresponsible and greedy actions shown by Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals in their marketing of the drug Risperdal,” said Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
This entry was posted in Antipsychotics, Featured News, In the News, Psychiatric Drugs by Kermit Cole. Bookmark the permalink.
Thank You MIA and Mr Cole.
Random thoughts;
Law Enforcement, so far as we can tell, at every level - Local, State, and Federal - has done Nothing about San Francisco's ghost Psych Hospitals and Staffs, since we broke this story in 2010.
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Why does Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the figurehead of the SS Mental Illness/San Francisco continue to exhibit the classic Psychiatric Symptomology of a pathological liar?
from, The Hill:
Despite the fact that Democrats in DC are having an almost across the board case of the cold, night sweat dreads over having foisted it on America.
The coming mid-term elections are going to bruise her party severely.
Why, did Her Party's IRS steal the medical (meaning any record of psychological or psychiatric treatment) records of Every State Judge in her District's State?
House Investigates Claims That IRS Seized (60) Millions Of Medical Records
"The complaint says records involve 10 million Americans including every state judge in California, as well as "prominent citizens in the world of entertainment, business and government, from all walks of life."
Why would the Obama IRS want the Medical Records of Every State Judge in California?
Say what you will about California, despite Congressman Issa-R winning election, the place is Not a Republican State.
These Judges are predominantly their own partisans.San Francisco Is #1 City In America For Venture Biotech Funding
Why are we allowing Private Industry to Become our Government?
Public/Private Partnerships?
Even Radio Talk Host Rush Limbaugh, who is very big on American Exceptionalism through Free Market Capitalism, which this blog is Also an unreserved advocate of, recently made the observation that what's going on today is not truly Free Market, but is increasingly Becoming, "Corporatism, which is Facism".
One of Limbaugh's callers posed the question, 'When have you ever seen a Democrat running for Office claim that they deserved to be elected because They would work with Republicans.
You don't see it because they have no intention whatsoever of working with Republicans, only of completely Destroying them and America's system of a plurality of Political Thought, . . . . in trade for a One Party System, Their's.
So, did Lois Lerner's IRS get their hands on the medical records of any Supreme Court Judges in Arkansas?
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
J&J/Risperdal Wants Jurisdiction Moved to Federal Court In Kentucky AG's Lawsuit
from Injury Lawyer News;
Kentucky Attorney General Files Risperdal LawsuitAnd here's Kentucky's filing:
http://freepdfhosting.com/f7231f6e46.pdf
The Kentucky attorney general filed a Risperdal lawsuit in Jefferson County Court, on June 14, 2013, against Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson, claiming the companies concealed the harmful side effects of the drug. An antipsychotic medication intended for use of the treatment of schizophrenia, symptoms of bipolar disorder, and irritability in autistic children, doctors also commonly prescribe the drug for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorders, stuttering, Tourette syndrome, and severe dementia.
The claim states that Risperdal is “the most widely used atypical antipsychotic in the world,” with $4.5 billion in sales in 2007.
Risperdal side effects litigation
The lawsuit alleges that patients have suffered serious Risperdal side effects after ingesting the drug. The claim states that “through their labeling and their promotion of Risperdal, Defendants concealed, downplayed, and misrepresented serious health risks caused by the drug for the purpose of increasing sales.” Plaintiffs allege that before and since the launch of the drug in 1994, the defendant has knownclinical studies have proven results showing that Risperdal carried an increased risk of dangerous side effects including:
- Tardive dyskinesia: An incurable movement disorder, causing uncontrollable muscle movements.
- Diabetes: Studies have suggested the drug causes an increased risk of high blood sugar, which is an early indicator of type 2 diabetes.
- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS): A potentially life-threatening neurological disorder causing rigidity, fever, autonomic instability, delirium, paranoia, changes in blood pressure, and excessive sweating.
- Sexual dysfunction: Some patients have reported a decreased libido and impaired performance.
- Gynecomastia: A condition causing abnormal male breast growth, gynecomastia is the topic of mounting Risperdal side effects litigation
- Cardiovascular problems: Symptoms including high blood pressure, heart attack, and palpitations have been connected to the drug.
- Stroke: Some cases of strokes have been traced to Risperdal, especially in the elderly.
- Death: Death due to heart failure in elderly patients using the drug have been reported.
Other minor side effects patients have experienced include sensitivity to temperature, impaired thinking, dizziness, hyperactivity, sudden involuntary muscle movements, abdominal pain, fatigue, fever, and nausea.
Arguments for the Risperdal lawsuit
Defendants argue that the Risperdal lawsuit should be taken to federal instead of state court, due to the following reasons:
- The Commonwealth’s Label Claim Necessarily Raises a Disputed Federal Issue: The Commonwealth’s label claim is based on allegations that certain risk information should have been placed in the warnings section of the label and that it was inappropriate to disclose the risk information in other sections of the label.
- The Federal Interest in the Issue of the Placement of Risk Information in FDA-Approved Package Inserts Is Substantial: In Empire Healthchoice Assurance, Inc. v. McVeigh, 547 U.S. 677 (2006), the Supreme Court “identified four aspects of a case or an issue that affect the substantiality of the federal interest in that case or issue. The first and third factors are objective, and the second and fourth are subjective, and no single factor is dispositive of the issue of substantiality.
- The Exercise of Federal Jurisdiction Over this Action Will Not Disturb Any Congressionally Approved Balance of Federal and State Judicial Responsibilities: Exercising federal jurisdiction over this case will not disturb the congressionally approved balance between federal and state judicial responsibilities.
In the lawsuit, the state of Kentucky seeks $2,000 for each violation of the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act, in addition to $10,000 for each violation involving a person aged 65 or older, plus costs, and an injunction.
Thank You Ms. Klein and Injury Lawyer News.
And Thank You Kentucky AG Conway.
Hmmm, Why would the Risperdal gang want the case moved to Federal Court?
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