Clinical Labs Lawyer Up In Battle Over LDTs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
ACLA has recruited Laurence Tribe and Paul Clement, two prominent constitutional legal guns with Supreme Court expertise, to fight FDA over its proposed lab-developed test guidance. The announcement is perhaps the lab industry's most high profile move yet to oppose FDA's plan to regulate lab-developed test services under the device statute with a risk-based phase-in plan.
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