countermand

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Prelogar’s petition said both the Texas judge and the 5th Circuit countermanded FDA’s scientific judgment and would unleash “regulatory chaos.”

From Washington Post

“This application concerns unprecedented lower court orders countermanding FDA’s scientific judgment and unleashing regulatory chaos by suspending the existing FDA-approved conditions of use for mifepristone,” wrote Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar.

From Washington Times

“Where the F.D.A. determines, in accordance with its statutory mandate, that a drug is on balance ‘safe,’” he wrote, the court’s precedents “prohibit any state from countermanding that determination.”

From New York Times

If the state “were able to countermand the F.D.A.’s determinations and substitute its own requirements, it would undermine the F.D.A.’s ability to make drugs available to promote and protect the public health,” the judge wrote.

From New York Times

Russian commanders had recommended pulling back to the river, only to have Mr. Putin countermand that order.

From New York Times