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Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims (www.texastribune.org)

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.

This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.

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[–] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

OK! Good! FINALLY! Now that they're pulling this shit, big companies have reason to fight back. I was wondering when Proctor and Gamble and Johnson and Johnson would start campaigning to get these psychos out of office, and this should do it.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Don't count on companies fighting back. Something tells me that, the moment a company actually fights the govt, they'll magically remember that said companies are actually violating several state and federal regulations and laws

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Really hope youre right, but I'm not counting those chickens yet

[–] chisel@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Um, the government has been filing frivolous lawsuits against some of the largest companies in the country for the past year. Companies then settle out of court and pay a multi-million dollar ~~bribe~~ settlement to encourage their mergers to go through. No sign of companies fighting back. If anything, they're encouraging it by being massive pushovers.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but this is Texas, not Trump. Paxton doesn't have anywhere near the same weight to throw around as Trump.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

He is a fat fuck, you got that right

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah that admits they may have been at fault for something, much better to counter sue and make the people of Texas pay possibly billions of dollars in stupid lawsuits that they will have to look at their government and say what the fuck, we knew that was bogus

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can a state be the defendant in an anti-slapp case?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure, I'm sure every state is different too. May have to get around the sovereign immunity as well. It isn't impossible, as their are usually clauses that bypass it but Texas may have very few