District Court Denies Myriad’s Preliminary Injunction Against Ambry
In a 106-page opinion issued on March 10, 2014, Judge Robert Shelby of the federal district court in Salt Lake City denied Myriad Genetics’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction in its lawsuit against...
View ArticleThe Patent Dispute Over Gene Editing Technologies: The Broad Institute, Inc....
The patent dispute already called “the biggest in biotech history” is only getting started. On January 11, 2016, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Deborah Katz officially declared an interference over...
View ArticleGenetic information as “perceived disability”: Chadam v. PAUSD
Chadam v. PAUSD, as previously covered on Genomics Law Report, is a case in which parents of a school boy are alleging that a school district violated their son’s rights when it made the decision that...
View ArticleLitigating the Accountability of Clinical Genomics Laboratories
Seeking Accountability from Clinical Genomics Laboratories A wrongful death case pending in a federal court in Columbia, SC—Williams v. Quest Diagnostics, Inc., et al.—demonstrates the very high stakes...
View ArticleACLU v. Myriad Genetics, Round 2: The Problem of Governance-by-Guidance
Just about everyone interested enough in genomics and the law to read this post will know that the American Civil Liberties Union waged a long and ultimately successful legal campaign to invalidate...
View ArticleUpdate on Chadam v. Palo Alto Unified School District
About a year ago we reported on a case involving allegations of genetic discrimination by a school district in California. According to the allegations, in fall 2012 the Palo Alto Unified School...
View ArticleWilliams v. Athena Motion to Dismiss Hearing—SC Supreme Court May Be Asked to...
Foreword by John Conley Back on May 31, 2016, Contributing Editor Jennifer Wagner wrote a lengthy report on the newly filed case of Williams v. Quest Diagnostics, et al. As Jen recounted, plaintiff...
View ArticleKeeping an Eye on “Perceived Disability” Litigation in California: Chadam v....
We mentioned in January that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the District Court’s earlier decision to grant a motion to dismiss and is instead allowing the case of Chadam v. Palo Alto...
View ArticleA Constitutional Challenge to Alaska’s Genetic Privacy Statute
As part of its defense of a class action lawsuit that began in 2014, a genetic genealogy company (or DNA ancestry company as they are sometimes called) is challenging the constitutionality of the...
View ArticleMore Bad Legal News for Athena Diagnostics: Don’t Mess with Mayo
We have been reporting for more than a year about the case of Williams v. Quest Diagnostics (the parent company of Athena Diagnostics), in which the plaintiff has sued Athena and Quest for causing the...
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