Yale Law School's free speech group says Boehringer's IRA ar­gu­ment is 'fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed'

Yale Law School’s Floyd Abrams In­sti­tute for Free­dom of Ex­pres­sion de­scribed Boehringer In­gel­heim’s First Amend­ment ar­gu­ments in its In­fla­tion Re­duc­tion Act law­suit as “ex­tra­or­di­nar­i­ly trou­bling.”

Boehringer filed suit in Au­gust against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, al­leg­ing the IRA’s Medicare price ne­go­ti­a­tion pro­vi­sions vi­o­late the First, Fifth and Eighth Amend­ments, in part by com­pelling the com­pa­ny’s speech. But the Abrams In­sti­tute, which “pro­motes free­dom of speech, free­dom of the press, ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion and gov­ern­ment trans­paren­cy,” said Boehringer’s free speech ar­gu­ments are “fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed.”

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