Find this 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.

Issues at Stake: Contract Pharmacy

• A drug manufacturer filed suit against the Kansas attorney general to challenge a state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements.
• A 340B Covered Entity filed suit against HRSA to challenge HRSA’s authorization of an audit request by a drug manufacturer.
• In six separate cases challenging state laws governing contract pharmacy arrangements:
  1.  A defendant filed a motion to dismiss and a notice of related cases;
  2. A defendant filed a motion to dismiss and a notice of related cases;
  3. A plaintiff filed an opposition to a putative intervenor’s motion to intervene; a putative intervenor filed a motion for leave to file a reply in support of its motion to intervene; four respondents filed a joint motion to quash subpoenas seeking non-party discovery; and a plaintiff filed a motion to compel compliance with a subpoena;
  4. Defendants filed a reply brief in support of their motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint.
  5. A group of five amici filed an amicus brief in support of the defendants’ motion to dismiss and in opposition to the plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction.
  6. A group of five amici filed an amicus brief in support of the defendants’ motion to dismiss.