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Plaintiffs’ lawyers shouldn’t strike deals to allow every document, or e-mail, to remain confidential. I understand the reasons this is done, usually justified for the sake of expediency, among other things.

But if more lawyers would ‘just say no,’ and force the issue in court, judges wouldn’t be so quick to think that issuing protective orders is acceptable because both parties are in agreement. In general, of course, such actions run the risk that important information will never see the light of day and, therefore, the risk of further harm increases, at least theoretically (I’m speaking in general terms, not about this particular case).

As some lawyers like to say about me, I’m just a journalist (albeit, one with a modest business background). But like most anyone else, I can sense fair play and lhave an interest in societal good. To that end, I think throwing blankets in the form of protective orders over every piece of paper and electronic file is a disservice.

OH COME ON JUDGE! We’re not stupid - and neither are you. The documents are benign and yet the contents are so explosive that they could cause significant harm to Lilly?

LILLY ALREADY HAS A WELL DESERVED REPUTATION OF CAUSING HARM TO OTHERS.

Here’s a few and many/all of them may be due to LAWYERS AND JUDGES sealing documents and data away from the eyes of physicians and patients (or upholding laws that allow others, such as regulators, to do so) thus causing the deaths of innocent citizens.

EVISTA

http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=012507_eli-lilly-fda-legal-lawsuits-pharmaceutical-company.htm

“…In the case of EVISTA, approved for treating post-menopausal women with osteoporosis, Lilly CONCEALED DATA that showed an increased risk of cancer. On October 24, 2002, the Cancer Prevention Coalition issued a press release that said Lilly suppressed evidence that women taking the drug were at an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.

“There is ample scientific evidence that Evista poses risks of ovarian cancer,” said Dr Samuel Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Prevention Coalition…”

“Lilly’s own study,” Dr Epstein wrote, “found that the drug was shown to induce ovarian cancer in rats and, at doses well below the therapeutic, in mice.…”

PROZAC

http://www.socialaudit.org.uk/58096-DH%20to%20WARK.htm
[Professor Healy]

” Lilly have resorted to treatment non-response and a range of other headings to code what happened.”

“…records on Prozac, Seroxat/Paxil and Lustral/Zoloft, you will find cases of homicidality coded as nausea for instance.”

“Discontinuation of patients from studies for primary adverse effects such as nausea when in fact there has been a suicidal act;”

“But it is also worth adding specifically that this has been a feature of all trialsof Zoloft/Lustral, Seroxat/Paxil and Prozac throughout… ”

CYMBALTA / YENTREVE

http://www.slate.com/id/2126918/

“…Over four months beginning in January, I filed several Freedom of Information Act requests on behalf of the Independent on Sunday, a British newspaper, for all safety data related to Cymbalta and Yentreve. I received a database that included 41 deaths and 13 suicides among patients taking Cymbalta.

Missing from the database was any record of Johnson [HEALTHY VOLUNTEER taking part in theclinical trial to help pay college fees], or at least four other volunteers known to have committed suicide while taking Cymbalta for depression.

When I asked the about the missing results, FDA officials cited a federal regulation
[text links to http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=16662

“…A court in Sweden has recently ordered the document to be made public.

This was done after the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) and the British MHRA in their response to FOIA [FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT] requests had treated this document as if it was a “state secret”.

In its arguments to the court the Swedish MPA even said that issuance of it would hurt the relations between Sweden and UK…”

OTHER LILLY FACTS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lilly_and_Company

“…Eli Lilly is also one of many drug companies that give soft money to advocacy groups and political action committees (PACs) to help influence lawmakers and regulators…”

Justice in the face of thousands of lives lost appears to be:

Protect the industry.
Make Laws allowing others to protect the industry.
If absolutely necessary, give industry a monetary fine (for causing the deaths of citizens) which they can afford, and allow them to carry on as if nothing had happened.
Imprison citizens who intentionally cause loss of life to another BUT treat industry as an ‘entity in itself’ and never find any individuals within it responsible (by their intentional actions of altering or hiding documents or promoting off label use) for the deaths of thousands of innocent citizens.
Victimise those who try to expose industry corruption to save lives, by treating them as if THEY were the criminals.
Back to point 1, protect industry.

There’s an old saying “The Law is an Ass”.

Perhaps, where judges and lawyers protect industry rather than protect citizens, it should be ‘The Law is a dangerous Farce“.

“…Neither lawyers nor judges should ever be party to such agreements. It is simply unacceptable as a matter of public policy to permit secret deals that conceal evidence of dangers to the public….”

The hope for the future is that Richard Zitrin’s law students will breed better lawyers and judges who will bring ethics back into law and a stop to the current situation:

That of judges colluding with industry fraud instead of protecting citizens from harm.

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/16665951.htm

“…Courts have the power to grant protective orders only to limit the disclosure of highly personal information and legitimate trade secrets. But when all the lawyers in a case agree, judges often grant protection even if the trade secrets in question show how the product does not work, not how it does.

Neither lawyers nor judges should ever be party to such agreements. It is simply unacceptable as a matter of public policy to permit secret deals that conceal evidence of dangers to the public….”

“…Unfortunately, disclosure is still the exception. But we should have learned our lesson by now. From Zomax and Halcion in the 1980s to shredding Firestone tires and GM gas-tank fires in the 1990s, to Vioxx and Zyprexa today, when lawyers cut secret deals behind the public’s back, what we don’t know can and does hurt us. The civil justice system belongs to all of us, and no one should be allowed to use it to keep the public in the dark….

http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2007/02/zyprexa-documents-court-ruling.html

“…Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — Confidential Eli Lilly & Co. marketing documents about its best-selling schizophrenia drug, Zyprexa must be returned to the company by a doctor and a lawyer who conspired to leak them to the press, a federal judge ruled…”

CONSPIRED?

So…LEGALLY, from a Judge’s point of view:

it’s NOT conspiracy when Lilly hides data VITAL for physicians to know, such as studies that show a higher death rate on Zyprexa than on any other antipsychotic ever recorded and as a result of that non-disclosure thousands of people have died.

Its NOT conspiracy when Eli Lilly hide documents that show they knew the additional risk of diabetes and how they encouraged off-label use of their drug despite it having a higher death rate than on any other antipsychotic ever recorded, so adding to the death toll.

Its NOT conspiracy when courts purporting to uphold “JUSTICE” ignore the risk of lives being lost to citizens and instead seal documents away from view of those Professors and Physicians who, without such data and documents, continue in ignorance to unwittingly cause the deaths of THOUSANDS of citizens.

According to Law, in Judge Weinstein’s view at least, CONSPIRACY is:

When people such as Dr Egilman and Jim Gottstein who have theINTEGRITY and COURAGE to risk everything by standing up for what is RIGHT (and do so against powerful people lacking integrity and courage representing all that is WRONG such as corruption in industry protected by corruption in the justice system), in an effort to put a stop to the killing of human lives resulting from such corruption…

CONSPIRACY is: justice, integrity, courage, ethics, concern for the lives of others over and above the risk to their own..

Eli Lilly, is a company that has become used to legal protection allowing them to seal documents that are shown in courts and seen by expert witnesses, in cases where they are involved in settlements for damages. ERGO: WHERE THOSE DOCUMENTS SHOW HARM. Having had that protection from the JUSTICE SYSTEM for decades, they have become used to having a free hand in avoiding accountability for their actions to amass huge profits, just as US courts have become used to abusing the principles of “justice” to protect them.

Clearly, “justice”, the US way, is used as a cover to protect fraud and corruption. Had the courts not assisted industry in this way, hundreds of thousands of people across the world would still be alive today.

But that, apparently, is not CONSPIRACY.

SHAME ON YOU, JUDGE WEINSTEIN.

http://www.ahrp.org:80/children/healy0402.php

PROFESSOR DAVID HEALY, UNIVERSITY OF WALES, (PSYCHIATRIST, PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIST, *FORMER* CONSULTANT TO PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES, ‘WHISTLEBLOWER’, EXPERT WITNESS)

“…At much the same time Lilly began studies on Zyprexa in children. There are parallel problems to Pfizer’s studies. The studies in adults with Zyprexa that Lilly submitted to the FDA demonstrate, as far as I can establish, a higher death rate on Zyprexa than on any other anti-psychotic ever recorded.

In addition to this Lilly have suppressed data on suicidal acts on Zyprexa from these trials. The data are not available in the scientific literature, nor from FOI requests to the FDA, nor from enquiries to the company…”

Nor from Judge Weinstein’s courtroom. ….

HOW DARE LAW COURTS WORK TO ASSIST INDUSTRY IN CRIME WHEN THOUSANDS OF LIVES ARE BEING LOST!

HOW DARE THEY!

DR DAVID GRAHAM (FDA SCIENTIST)
& DR EGILMAN (EXPERT WITNESS), JIM GOTTSTEIN (LAWYER):

ARTICLE LINK

“…on February 13, 2007, FDA scientist Dr David Graham, the guy brave enough to blow the whistle on Merck and Vioxx, testified at a US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing and said the off-label use of antipsychotics like Zyprexa to sedate nursing home residents kills roughly 15,000 people a year.

Dr Graham also told members of the committee that Lilly and the FDA had known “for a long time” that Zyprexa caused weight gain that can lead to diabetes…”

“…After reviewing the documents as a plaintiff’s expert in the underlying Zyprexa litigation, Dr Egilman became so alarmed over what he found that as a doctor, he believed he had an obligation to find a way to make the information public…”

“…Mr Gottstein argues that the public has a right to know the truth about the risks associated with the drug. “The files show that the manufacturer hid vital information about the drug’s safety,” he states, “not only from patients, but also from doctors.”

“Zyprexa has killed and permanently sickened thousands of people who have taken it,” he says.

Mr Gottstein openly admits that he wanted to get the information out to save lives. “The bottom line is patient safety,” he said…”

“…If the disclosure of these documents prevents even one person from taking Zyprexa without knowing about the health risks involved, the ends will justify the means, and Mr Gottstein and Dr Egilman should be declared saints…”