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Generics Firms Can't Halt Maryland's 'Price Gouging' Law

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

Judge rejects Association for Accessible Medicines' bid for preliminary injunction, but industry can still pursue claims the statute's language is unconstitutionally vague; law goes into effect Oct. 1.

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A Maryland law prohibiting "price gouging" in the sale of certain off-patent and generic drugs is to go into effect Oct. 1, after a court found the Association for Accessible Medicines had not shown it is likely to be held unconstitutional.

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