Landmark case at US Supreme Court

3 November 2008

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is due to hear Wyeth versus Levine, a law suit in which the precedent is likely to be set as to whether the Food and Drug Administration's labeling regulations pre-empt state law (Marketletters passim). US drug major Wyeth hopes to persuade the Court that it did not have to modify an FDA-approved product label for its injectable anti-nausea drug Phenergan (promethazine), to avoid being sued for $6.7 million in Vermont.

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