CVS Seeks Court-Ordered Pause on Embattled Arkansas Pharmacy Law

CVS Pharmacy and affiliated companies want a judge to block Arkansas from enforcing a first-of-its kind law prohibiting companies that manage prescription drug benefits from acquiring pharmacies while litigation over the statute plays out in federal court.

CVS and other pharmacies affiliated with pharmacy benefit manager CVS Health Corp.‘s Caremark are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Arkansas law, Act 624, violates the US Constitution’s commerce clause by discriminating against competition from out-of-state pharmacies, attorneys for the pharmacies wrote in their preliminary injunction motion filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the ...