路易斯·米. Bograd

He has devoted much of his professional career to litigating appeals on complex issues involving products liability, Medicaid lien reimbursements, constitutional rights, 和 civil liberties. 在莫特利大学, Lou continues his focus on appellate issues 和 mass torts, further enhancing the firm’s active 和 growing complex litigation practice. Lou serves as co-chair of the Law & Briefing Committee for the National Prescription Opiate MDL, which is focused on combatting the alleged deceptive marketing 和 over-distribution of opioids. 

Prior to joining 五颜六色的大米, Lou served as an appellate advocate 和 Chief Litigation Counsel for the Center for Constitutional Litigation where he led work in mass torts, the Class Action Fairness Act, 和 dispositive motions concerning consumer protection 和 products liability. Lou argued for plaintiffs before the U.S. 最高法院 regarding federal preemption of claims against generic drug manufacturers in Pliva, 公司. v. Mensing 和 has also participated in numerous other 最高法院 cases as counsel for petitioners, 受访者, 和 朋友的顾问.

Lou has spoken on various legal topics at many seminars, 继续教育项目, 和 legal conferences across the country sponsored by, 等, the American Association for Justice, state trial lawyers associations, 和 Mass Torts Made Perfect. Lou has also presented at judicial education programs sponsored by the Pound Institute, the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, the Northwestern University School of Law, 和 the George Mason University School of Law.

Lou’s legal career began at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C., where he managed 和 directed work on transfusion-associated HIV/AIDS cases on behalf of the American Red Cross. He subsequently served on the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation’s national legal staff 和 as the legal director of the Alliance for Justice. Lou has also taught advanced torts 和 products liability law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of 肯塔基州 College of Law.

Selected Publications:

• 路易斯·米. Bograd & 安德烈米. 不均匀, 巴克曼停在这里! Limits on Preemption of State Tort Claims Involving Allegations of Fraud on the PTO or the FDA, 41 Rutgers L. J. 309 (2009)
• 路易斯·米. Bograd, Be Careful What You Wish For: Drugmakers, the First Amendment, 和 Preemption, 51 trial24(11月. 2015)
• 路易斯·米. Bograd, Preemption's Uncertain Path, 第20次审判(11月11日. 2011)
• 路易斯·米. Bograd, W(h)ither Preemption?, 第24期(11月. 2009)
• 路易斯·米. Bograd, Taking on Big Pharma- 和 the FDA审判30(3月30日. 2007)