J&J rebuffed: US high court refuses to hear appeal of Procrit whistleblower suit
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Johnson & Johnson has suffered a setback with the US Supreme Court declining to hear the issues in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former sales representative against its Ortho Biotech unit. The case raises the question of whether the whistleblower can bring kickback claims after an alleged scheme had already come to light during a multidistrict litigation over wholesale drug pricing.