February 22, 2022
Kirkland & Ellis LLP was awarded $200,000 in attorney fees on Friday by a New York federal judge from a settlement between a generic pharmaceutical trade group and the state that ended a dispute challenging the constitutionality of passing opioid surcharges on to customers.
December 19, 2018
New York's $600 million fee on the sale of opioids into the state unconstitutionally prohibits pharmaceutical companies from passing the cost onto consumers, a federal judge said Wednesday in halting payments to the state ahead of a Jan. 1 deadline.
December 10, 2018
A Manhattan judge probed the pharmaceutical industry's attack on New York's $600 million levy on the opioid industry and the state's defense of the law at a Monday hearing, asking questions that suggested a range of outcomes were on the table between letting the law be and striking it down.