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The Federal Circuit upheld on Monday a win secured by British pharmaceutical firm GW Pharmaceuticals in a patent suit brought by cannabis giant Canopy Growth, which accused the former of pinching its extraction process so it could make its flagship CBD drug Epidiolex.
A Georgia doctor urged the full Eleventh Circuit to not let Monsanto "avoid responsibility" for its failure to warn about the cancer risk associated with its Roundup weedkiller, saying federal law doesn't preempt failure to warn claims and "every appellate judge to consider the issue all agree."
A Japanese convenience store chain asked a California federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action brought by a woman who claims she suffered a violent allergic reaction due to its mislabeled cookies, which contained nuts, arguing she doesn't have standing because it recalled the products.
The maker of Polaner jellies has asked a federal judge to toss a woman's false advertising lawsuit over ingredients in its "All Fruit" spreads, saying she packed her suit with "quintessential examples of 'conclusory statements' and 'legal conclusions.'"
The city of Berkeley, California, has been on the losing end of its own fight regarding the line between state and federal law when it comes to regulating radiofrequency levels, and it wants the U.S. Supreme Court to step into another case to prevent the Ninth Circuit from leaning too hard toward preemption.