Pitkow v. Lautin

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered December 9, 2014, which granted the motion of defendants Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis U.S., LLC (collectively Sanofi) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this action arising from plaintiff’s use of Sanofi’s product called “Sculptra,” used for smoothing facial wrinkles and filling in lost facial fat deposits, the motion court correctly determined that plaintiff’s claims against Sanofi are preempted by the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, as amended…