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law.cornell.edu - 3/4/2009
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WYETH v. LEVINE (No. 06-1249) ___ Vt. ___, 944 A. 2d 179, affirmed. Syllabus Opinion [Stevens] Concurrence [Breyer] Concurrence [Thomas] Dissent [Alito] Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the ...
druganddevicelaw.blogspot.com - 3/4/2009
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First, a minor correction. We lost by 6-3,
not 6-2 (when you're typing fast you're all thumbs)....
We lost Kennedy, Thomas, and Breyer. We needed to win at least two of them. The court relied on two facts established by the trial: (1) that a stronger ...
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... Happily, I was mistaken. The Court today held 6-3 that no federal law pre-empted the Vermont civil verdict. Stevens's majority opinion didn't deny that the federal government could pre-empt such suits, but held that there was not, in fact, any federal pre-emption: ...
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... I agree with the majority, and to an even greater extent with Justice Thomas' concurrence, in Wyeth v. Levine, the latest in a series of preemption cases the court has decided in recent terms. ...
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