Minnesota Pushes Rehearing of Court Pause on Drug Pricing Law

The Minnesota attorney general is urging a federal appeals court to reconsider a panel’s ruling upholding a lower court’s pause on a state law prohibiting excessive price hikes on generic drugs.

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit misread US Supreme Court precedent when it determined in June that the trade association representing generic and biosimilar manufacturers showed it’s likely to succeed on its claim that the Minnesota law violates the dormant commerce clause of the US Constitution, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) wrote in a petition for rehearing filed Thursday.

The decision ...