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Judge Dismisses Safeway Lawsuit Over San Francisco Tobacco Ban
Posted on 20 Jul 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

SAN FRANCISCO - (AP) A federal judge on Friday found that the city of San Francisco has a right to ban tobacco sales in stores with pharmacies even if the pharmacy is not the store's main business. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken dismissed a suit... Read More

Tags: pharmacies , smoking , Litigation , lawsuit , San Francisco , Safeway , tobacco

California High Court: Pharmacies That 'Passed On' Higher Costs Have UCL Injury
Posted on 12 Jul 2010 by Bryan Redding

SAN FRANCISCO - (Mealey's) Pharmacies have standing to pursue unfair competition law (UCL) claims alleging that they paid higher prices because of price fixing by pharmaceutical companies, even though they passed the higher prices on to consumers... Read More

Tags: pharmacies , Eli Lilly & Co. , Hanover Shoe v. United Shoe Mach , Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. , Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals , pharmaceutical companies , Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America , James Clayworth , Abbott Laboratories , Pfizer Inc. , Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , California , UCL , Amgen Inc. , Allergan Inc. , Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois , Business and Professions Code , price fixing , Cartwright Act , unfair competition law , AstraZeneca International , California Supreme Court , Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. , Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. , Litigation , lawsuit , Merck & Co. , Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Kentucky Appeals Court Vacates $130 Million Drug-Pricing Verdicts, Says State Was 'Complicit'
Posted on 16 Oct 2012 by Tom Moylan

FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Kentucky appeals court panel on Oct. 12 vacated verdicts totaling more than $130.7 million against two drug makers for publishing inflated average wholesale prices (AWPs), saying the Kentucky Medicaid program was well aware of the practice... Read More

Tags: pharmacies , drug pricing , average wholesale prices , Sandoz , Kentucky appeals court , Kentucky Medicaid program , AstraZeneca , Kentucky Medicaid Fraud Statute , compensatory damages , verdicts , drug makers , False Advertising Statute , Medicaid , Sandoz Inc. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky , Litigation , Kentucky attorney general , LP v. Commonwealth of Kentucky , AWPs , Consumer Protection Act , First DataBank

Supreme Court Says Vermont Law Restricting Prescribing Data Is Unconstitutional
Posted on 23 Jun 2011 by Tom Moylan

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) Vermont's law restricting the sale of doctors' drug-prescribing information to data miners for use in marketing drugs to doctors is an unconstitutional, impermissible restriction on free speech content and on... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , drugs , pharmacies , data miners , Verispan , IMS Health , William H. Sorrell v. IMS Health , marketing drugs , Vermont Statutes , Source Healthcare Analytics , doctors , Vermont , Litigation , First Amendment , drug-prescribing information , free speech , Prescription Confidentiality Law

Supreme Court Justices Weigh Constitutionality Of Vermont Law Restricting Prescribing Data
Posted on 26 Apr 2011 by Tom Moylan

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) U.S. Supreme Court justices on April 26 questioned why Vermont needs to hide doctors' prescribing habits from drug sales representatives or if the state has a sound public policy reason for doing so ( William H. Sorrell... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , drugs , pharmacies , drug sales representatives , data miners , Verispan , IMS Health , Food and Drug Administration , Source Healthcare Analytics , doctors , Vermont , Litigation , lawsuit , William H. Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc.