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

• In four cases challenging a state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements in Utah, two plaintiffs filed a response to the government’s notice of supplemental authority, one plaintiff filed a notice of supplemental authority, and one defendant filed a notice of supplemental authority in support of their motion to dismiss.
• In a case by a drug manufacturer challenging an Arkansas state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the court denied the intervenor-defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.
• A trade association for drug manufacturers filed a cases in Oregon and a case in Rhode Island to challenge state laws governing contract pharmacy arrangements.
• A drug manufacturer filed a case in Maine and a case in Oklahoma to challenge state laws governing contract pharmacy arrangements.
• In one case by a drug manufacturer challenging a Colorado state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiff filed a motion for preliminary injunction.
• In one case by a trade association for drug manufacturers challenging a Colorado state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiff filed a reply in support of its motion for preliminary injunction.
• In one case by a drug manufacturer challenging a Hawaii state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiff filed a memorandum in opposition re defendant’s motion to dismiss.
• In one case by a trade association for drug manufacturers challenging a Hawaii state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the plaintiff filed a memorandum in opposition re defendant’s motion to dismiss.
• In one case by a drug manufacturer challenging a Rhode Island state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the court denied plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction and the plaintiff appealed this decision.
• In one case by a drug manufacturer challenging an Oklahoma state law governing contract pharmacy arrangements, the defendant filed a reply re plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.