I don’t think this is a good ruling at all. The feds protect the pharmaceutical companies from the states and the people they destroy?! One day we may all be required to be vaccinated and the laws in place will mean we have nowhere to turn except to those we can not trust.
The law also established an adverse reactions trust fund to take care of those who have reactions since they cannot sue.
This was a just decision.
I do not want vaccines for polio, measles, mumps and rubella to disappear from the market due to jackpot justice at the hands of the Trial Lawyers Association.
You concentrate on the “people the drugs destroy.” Do you care about the tens of thousands who are ALIVE because of the drugs they were given.
Somewhere there will be a drug discovered that will cause the remission of cancers. 75,000 people will beat the dread disease due solely to the drug, but 3 people with have an adverse reaction and succumb.
The company that gave life to the 75,000 cancer sufferers will then be villified and sued into oblivion.
Happy now?
Today the Supreme Court said that pharmaceutical companies that develop such vaccines are, in fact, protected by a federal law designed to protect them from lawsuits.
I don't think that vaccine would have been developed if just any old state court could bring a judgment against them.
Millions more people would have a damaged retina ~ and that's just from measles.
This is indeed a good ruling, since vaccine manufacturers can’t sell anything at all without approval from the FDA. The FDA approval pretty much puts the burden of proof on the federal government regulators, which is why vaccine manufacturers should be shielded.
If we din’t have regulation then the manufacturers should indeed be held responsible.
It’s the price you pay for big government.