Find the week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary of relevant updates from the prior week in this industry-shaping body of litigation. Get more details on these 340B cases and all other material 340B cases pending in federal and state courts with the 340B Litigation Tracker.
Issues at Stake: Contract Pharmacy; Other
- In two cases brought by drug manufacturers challenging a New Mexico state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiffs filed notices of supplemental authority.
- In a case brought by a drug manufacturer challenging a Tennessee state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the court stayed the case pending resolution of two similar cases at the Sixth Circuit.
- In two cases challenging a Mississippi state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s denial of each plaintiff’s preliminary injunction.
- A drug manufacturer filed a complaint against the government, arguing that the government’s (1) refusal to enforce findings from its proposed audits of covered entities and (2) determination regarding what constitutes a “patient” is unlawful.
- A trade association of drug manufacturers filed a complaint to challenge a Washington state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements.
- In a case brought by a drug manufacturer against the government, an intervenor filed an unopposed motion to intervene, and the government granted the motion.
- In a case brought by a covered entity against the government, the covered entity filed an objection to non-parties’ notice of related cases and a supplemental brief.
- In a case brought by a trade association of drug manufacturers challenging a Rhode Island state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiff appellant filed its reply brief in the First Circuit.
- In a case brought by a trade association of drug manufacturers challenging a Maine state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, AHA, 340B Health, the Main Hospital Association, and ASHP filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit in support of defendant appellee.
- In one case by a healthcare center alleging that the defendants conspired to restrict access to 340B drug discounts, defendants filed a memorandum in support of their motion to dismiss.
