Thursday, June 23, 2011

Justice Thomas... yikes.

Try to follow this excerpt (if you can) of Justice Thomas' majority opinion on lawsuits against generic drug makers, extracted from the NYT:
“If they had done so,” Justice Thomas wrote of a possible request for a label change, “and if the F.D.A. decided there was sufficient supporting information, and if the F.D.A. undertook negotiations with the brand-name manufacturer, and if adequate label changes were decided on and implemented, then the manufacturers would have started a Mouse Trap game that eventually led to a better label on generic metoclopramide.”
Should we laugh or cry?  It's bad enough that he wrote a single, lengthy sentence with multiple verbs, but it feels like he's trying to torture us:


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