{"id":303399,"date":"2026-05-07T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303399\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:05:22","slug":"california-justices-scrutinize-gilead-patients-liability-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303399\/","title":{"rendered":"California Justices Scrutinize Gilead Patients\u2019 Liability Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gilead Sciences Inc.&#8217;s obligation to patients is likely a public policy question for the state legislature, California Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu said during oral arguments Wednesday, as he questioned the judicial system\u2019s role in deciding drug manufacturers\u2019 development obligations.<\/p>\n<p>More than 24,000 patients who took Gilead\u2019s HIV treatment allege they were harmed when the manufacturer stopped developing another treatment that would have had fewer side effects\u2014a potentially groundbreaking theory of liability. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is that the law does not prevent a company from reaping profits from its innovation,\u201d Liu said on Wednesday during oral arguments at the California Supreme &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gilead Sciences Inc.&#8217;s obligation to patients is likely a public policy question for the state legislature, California Associate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,101701,5576,4720,127650],"class_list":["post-303399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-negligence","tag-patient-safety","tag-public-health","tag-summary-judgment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}