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Dobbs v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 11134
| 10th Cir. | 2010
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*2 Before BRISCOE , Chief Judge, and HENRY and HARTZ , Circuit Judges.

HENRY , Chief Judge.

Annabel Dobbs has alleged that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals failed to adequately label its antidepressant Effexor to warn of suicide risk, and that this failure to warn caused her husband’s 2002 suicide while he was taking Effexor. The district court granted partial summary judgment to Wyeth, holding that Ms. Dobbs’s failure to warn claim against Wyeth was preempted by federal law. After the district court’s decision, the Supreme Court established a new standard for a federal preemption defense against a failure to warn claim, holding that the pharmaceutical company must demonstrate “clear evidence” that the Food and Drug Administration would have rejected a label change had the pharmaceutical *3 company unilaterally strengthened its drug’s warning label. See Wyeth v. Levine , 129 S. Ct. 1187, 1198 (2009). Accordingly, we must VACATE the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment to Wyeth and REMAND the case to the district court. On remand, the district court should first afford the parties the opportunity to submit additional evidence. Then, the district court should reconsider the preemption issue in light of Levine ’s new “clear evidence” standard.

Case Details

Case Name: Dobbs v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Court Name: Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Date Published: Jun 2, 2010
Citation: 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 11134
Docket Number: 08-6018
Court Abbreviation: 10th Cir.
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