ASSOCIATION FOR ACCESSIBLE MEDICINES v. JAMES

Docket Nos. 19-183-cv(L), 19-199-cv(CON), 19-201-cv(CON) August Term, 2019.

974 F.3d 216 (2020)

ASSOCIATION FOR ACCESSIBLE MEDICINES, Healthcare Distribution Alliance, SpecGx LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Letitia JAMES, in her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of New York, Howard A. Zucker, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 14, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay P. Lefkowitz , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY ( Matthew D. Rowen , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee Association for Accessible Medicines.

Michael B. Kimberly , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Washington, DC ( M. Miller Baker , Sarah P. Hogarth , Eric Hageman , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Washington, DC, Andrew B. Kratenstein , M. Elias Berman , McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee Healthcare Distribution Alliance.

Douglas H. Hallward-Driemeier , Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, DC, Erin R. Macgowan , Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, for Plaintiff-Appellee SpecGx LLC.

Steven C. Wu , Deputy Solicitor General ( Barbara D. Underwood , Solicitor General, Caroline A. Olsen , Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Letitia James , Attorney General for the State of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Letitia James and Howard A. Zucker.

Before: CABRANES and LOHIER, Circuit Judges, and REISS, District Judge.


To address the substantial costs imposed by the national opioid public health crisis as it struck New York, the New York State Legislature enacted the Opioid Stewardship Act (OSA). See 2018 N.Y. Sess. Laws, ch. 57, pt. NN (codified at N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 3323 and N.Y. State Fin. Law § 97...

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