Generic Industry Sues To Halt Maryland's 'Price Gouging' Law

Association for Accessible Medicines says sweeping price restraints on off-patent and generic drugs are vague and will 'unleash a potentially unlimited number of enforcement actions.'

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The Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM) decries the broad reach and vague terms of a Maryland law prohibiting "price gouging" in the sale of certain off-patent and generic drugs in a lawsuit seeking to block its enforcement.

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