A lawyer for Pennsylvania urged seven justices of the Pa. Commonwealth Court yesterday to allow the state’s case against Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen to proceed, saying that a judge had “wrongfully taken the case away from the jury” in 2010. Among the evidence presented was a 1999 letter from the FDA to Janssen stating “The materials and promotional messages Janssen has disseminated contain false and/or misleading information about the safety and effectiveness of Risperdal.” One month ago, a judge awarded $1.1 billion in damages to Arkansas for a similar case, argued by the same lawyers.
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