Legal Backgrounders

September 19, 2003

Legal Backgrounders

FDA Should Propose Rule On Federal Preemption Of Failure To Warn Lawsuits

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By James Dabney Miller, a partner with the law firm King & Spalding LLP in its Washington, D.C. office.

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