Second Circuit Recognizes Significant First Amendment Protections for Off-Label Promotion

November 9, 2020, Covington Alert

Now that former Vice President Biden has been projected to win the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, expect the transition to commence from the Trump Administration to a Biden Administration. Control of the U.S. Senate remains in the balance with two runoff elections in Georgia on January 5, but either way, the Senate majority will be razor thin and hence less ...

October 1, 2020

WASHINGTON—Gerald Masoudi, former General Counsel of Celgene Corporation and then JUUL Labs, has rejoined Covington’s Food, Drug, and Device Practice Group in Washington as a partner. Mr. Masoudi has more than 25 years of broad experience in the life sciences industry. He served as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2007 to 2009. He ...

December 22, 2016, Covington Alert

On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures Act, which became Public Law No. 114-255 (“the Act”). Its enactment represents the culmination of a multi-year bipartisan legislative process spearheaded on the House side by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, Ranking Member Frank Pallone, and Rep. Diana DeGette and on ...