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This Court Took Leave of Its "Census."
Roche Wins Reversal Of Accutane Verdict.

Is "the law" the same as "justice?" Or is what passes for law often a gross injustice? If you were trying to figure out whether a medication possibly caused a problem that occurs to a certain number of people naturally, wouldn't you insist on knowing how often that problem occurs naturally? And how many of the people who took the medicine had or didn’t have any problem at all? It’s about the math!, notes Dr. Tim Rosio of El Dorado Hills/Folsom, California. But what if a judge says, you don't get to use the numbers! Recently a lawsuit was unfairly won by an actor who had taken Accutane to treat her acne to prevent facial scarring, because afterward, it was discovered she had inflammatory bowel disease. The judge blocked the use by the defense of basic statistics of non-affected users. Bloomberg News (8/6, Feeley) reports, "Roche Holding AG won reversal of a $10.5 million verdict over its Accutane [isotretinoin] acne drug because a judge improperly barred the company from using evidence about the medication's use," according to an appeals court ruling made in Kendall v. Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., ATL- L-8213-05, New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic County (Atlantic City). "Roche's lawyers should have been able to use data about how many acne sufferers had used Accutane over the years throughout Kamie Kendall's 2008 trial of her lawsuit over the drug, the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division ruled," prompting "a judge in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to delay the trial of an actor's suit alleging the medication causes inflammatory bowel disease."