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Corporations want a clearer path to victory in the courts. The justices appear to be listening.

On August 28, officials from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a video call to discuss the trade organization’s legal action against the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), including a motion for preliminary injunction filed against the HHS last week in U.S. district court.

One fast-moving lawsuit seeks to block the U.S. government from even starting the drug-price negotiation process.

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The Biden administration is preparing to announce the first 10 medicines it will target under a program that allows the government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical giants, part of a sweep...

The list is expected to arrive within the next two weeks, and industry experts believe it will include some of the most widely prescribed treatments for arthritis, blood disorders, heart disease and diabetes.

The announcement is part of a sweeping — and legally contested — campaign to lower costs for seniors on Medicare.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) lambasted the Chamber of Commerce’s request for an injunction to block the Medicare drug price negotiation program, arguing in court filings that the organization had no standing to file the lawsuit and that pausing the program would harm the public. The rebuttal comes weeks before the federal government is expected…

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Current rule-making from the Council on Environmental Quality, the agency that oversees the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act. Given that NEPA applies really just to federal agencies, why do private companies and non-government entities care so much about NEPA.