In the case of law entitled Family Medicine Pharmacy LLC V. Impax Laboratories Inc., the aforementioned company brought a suit against Impax Laboratories Inc., claiming that it had breached 1991’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by sending advertisements for its EpiPen via fax to thousands of pharmacies, including the Family Medicine Co, LLC.

Impax Laboratories has agreed to pay 4.8m in a bid to finalize the Class Action suit leveled against them. The Family Medicine Co. LLC asserts that Impax Laboratories has been illegally advertising their product, an epinephrine auto-injector, since 2013. The company Mylan introduced EpiPen into the market, which is a similar product, and the Impax auto-injector is the cheaper alternative to Mylan’s product.

The Class Action suit was heard in a courtroom in Southern Alabama. The final settlement of 4.8m US dollars will be broken down into an award of US $500 for each of the faxes received by approximately 48, 150 members of the Class Action suit.

The plaintiff in the suit, Family Medicine LLC, will receive remuneration of US $20,000 for their role as Class Action representative. This Class Action suit was placed on record for the first time in January 2017. On March 2017, Impax Laboratories filed a Motion to Dismiss the Class Action Complaint that had been filed by the Family Medicine Co LLC., earlier in the year. In response to the Motion to Dismiss the Family Medicine Co LLC., filed an Amended Class Action, which is now the case that is in motion before the court. The initial Class Action suit has been dismissed completely.

However, a number of issues arise from these actions, including the question of whether the Motion to Dismiss has any validity because the document against which the Motion to Dismiss was filed no longer has any legal force. Accordingly, the Motion to Dismiss may be deemed Moot and no longer applicable.

In the case where the Defendant wishes to renew the Motion to Dismiss, this party must wholly reproduce its initial arguments prior to the date of April 25, 2017. This is because the Defendant may not refer to arguments that may have been produced in the original documents.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20170412b11

Emma Fox is apparently feeling remorseful after a chain of decisions that landed her with a case in the state Supreme Court. The 25-year-old has been charged with second-degree vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving, speeding, and two counts of driving under the influence of alcohol. The charges come after she struck and killed 21-year-old college student and lacrosse player, Robby Schartner, who was traveling on foot. According to her lawyer, the tragic event is something she regrets every day.

On the early-morning of Oct. 9, 2016, Fox left alone after drinking and partying with friends at The Pub in Rye and La Quinta Inn & Suites in Armonk. Schartner was walking toward the Manhattanville campus after visiting a string of bars on Mamaroneck Avenue and getting separated from his friends. Fox proceeded to drive her 2012 Nissan Sentra in the same direction he was heading to the school. By record of local police, she hit Schartner near the White Plains overpass.

Fox continued driving about a quarter-mile before stopping to call police. She told the officers she was looking down at directions on her GPS when she hit an unknown object. After finding Schartner’s body near the overpass, White Plains Police arrested Fox. The charges came after they confirmed her breath test showed her BAC as 0.21 percent, 0.13 over the legal limit for driving under the influence. The charges were moved from first-degree to second after conflicting breath test results. The hospital’s test results from an hour and 45 minutes later showed her BAC to only be 0.09 percent.

Now 11 months later, Fox’s case has been transferred from White Plains City Court to state Supreme Court.

According to USA Today, Hall’s attorney stated she remains devastated over the death of her son. She also filed a wrongful death civil suit last month against Emma Fox and the bars that patronized her the night of Schartner’s death.

Meanwhile, the lacrosse team remembered their teammate and took steps to make a difference with the launch of their #TeamThree campaign. The initiative against drunk driving that honors his uniform number went viral, gaining the attention of several notable influencers. Odell Beckham, wide receiver for the New York Giants and the band Aerosmith took notice and helped push the cause.

Robert Alexander, an emergency first responder to 9/11 event and a reputed New York city police officer, died of cancer-related issues last month. His death was preceded by the death of his father Raymond Alexander, a firefighter by trade, who was also working as an emergency first responder during the WTC attack. But these two are not the only ones’ who sacrificed their lives for the goods of others. There are literally stories of thousand other first responders who fought off bravely during the terrorist attack but later suffered from severe health and mental disorders.

CDC’s WTC health program, where nearly 7,000 individuals are enrolled, offers monitoring and health care services to emergency responders and volunteers. Around 6,000 of that total figure actually worked during the 9/11 attack. But government and federal authorities only came to their aid once it was established through class-action lawsuits and direct pieces of evidence from autopsies that emergency first responders and volunteers working at the site during rescue and evacuation were exposed to life-threatening carcinogens and other toxic substances.

After continuously haggling for years, the federal authorities eventually passed a law in 2010 named after a deceased NYC detective James Zadroga, who died of respiratory complications in 2006, thought to have incurred by working during and after the 9-11 event. But for the law to be reauthorized in 2015, it took extensive lobbying and great effort from all involved parties. Likewise, at the state level, it took years for affected families to receive their compensations and death benefits.

But it was not all about medical ailments, as two independent studies confirmed that witnessing the attack rendered people psychologically vulnerable, and most of them witnessing the 9-11 suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. “You never recover fully,” as stated by a military officer who worked during the attack at Pentagon, and agreed by million others – their ailments and psychological distress have forced authorities to improve several aspects of emergency responders’ resources.

September 11, 2001, was a black day in the history of US, and at the same time, a constant reminder of the sacrifices of thousands of emergency responders and volunteers. People now know what they actually had to go through to save others, and hence utmost respect is afforded to all those real life heroes from people of not the only US, but from all corners around the globe.