Judge toss­es PhRMA's suit over drug price ne­go­ti­a­tions in a win for the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion

A fed­er­al court in west Texas yes­ter­day tossed the in­dus­try group PhRMA and oth­er as­so­ci­a­tions’ suit over the In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act’s drug price ne­go­ti­a­tions, serv­ing up a ma­jor win for the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion, which is still fac­ing about ten oth­er suits in var­i­ous fed­er­al courts.

In the PhRMA case, judge David Alan Ezra ruled that the court lacks the ap­pro­pri­ate ju­ris­dic­tion over one of the oth­er par­ties that filed, the Na­tion­al In­fu­sion Cen­ter As­so­ci­a­tion, which was the on­ly par­ty that resided in this court’s dis­trict.

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