Excerpt from District Court's opinion in the case below Abney v. Amgen

The following is an excerpt from the District Court’s opinion; specifically, it is the portion dealing with the “public interest” prong. Note that the “FDCA” is the federal statute creating the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Statutes of this type are often called the agency’s “organic statute."

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