Georgetown Law Alumni Magazine - Res Ipsa Loquitur
Spring/Summer 2009 - Online Volume 1
Lectures and Events
Professors Brief Press on Court Cases
A new presidential administration loomed on the horizon, but Fall 2008 was business as usual for the Supreme Court — and Professors Susan Low Bloch, James Forman, Lisa Heinzerling, Martin Lederman and David Vladeck gathered in Gewirz Student Center on September 22 to help national and local news media make sense of it all. At the Supreme Court Institute’s annual press briefing, legal experts gave journalists an idea of what to expect in the High Court’s 2008 term. Vladeck, an expert in federal preemption and food and drug law matters, discussed Wyeth v. Levine, a case that raises questions about whether state law claims concerning drug labeling warnings should be preempted by federal law. “It would be a ‘sea change’ in the way we do products liability law,” said Vladeck, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of former FDA commissioners.
