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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (Legal Newsline) - Pharmaceutical manufacturers can be liable for failing to give doctors proper instructions on how to use their drugs, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled, in answer to a question from a federal appeals court. The state’s high court rejected defense arguments the learned-intermediary rule limited manufacturers’ duty to warning doctors about the potential risks of a medication.
This week allow me to share with you a sketch of the men and women who sit on our State Supreme Court. These nine Justices are all Republican, all conservative on both social and business issues. All are very devout in their faith and very connected to their church and their family.
Chief Justice Tom Parker has been on the State Supreme Court since 2005. He was born and raised in Montgomery and went to Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt Law School.
Chief Justice Parker and his wife the former Dottie James of Auburn have been married 39 years. Dottie was a supervisor of the governorâs mansion during the Fob James administration. They are Methodist.