07.06.11
The Supreme Court’s Decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health and Public Health
This post authored by O’Neill Institute Research Assistant and rising Georgetown Law 2L, Dinesh Kumar. In a 6-3 decision on June 23, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Vermont law prohibiting pharmacies from selling prescriber-identifiable drug information to “data mining” companies. These companies aggregate and sell this data (which doesn’t identify patients) to pharmaceutical companies, which promote sales […]