{"id":995,"date":"2024-05-24T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/oklahoma-taps-paul-clement-to-take-on-pharmacy-middlemen-at-high-court\/"},"modified":"2024-05-26T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:30:14","slug":"oklahoma-taps-paul-clement-to-take-on-pharmacy-middlemen-at-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/oklahoma-taps-paul-clement-to-take-on-pharmacy-middlemen-at-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Taps Paul Clement to Take on Pharmacy \u2018Middlemen\u2019 at High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Veteran U.S. Supreme Court lawyer Paul Clement has taken another case to the high court on behalf of Oklahoma, this time in defense of the state\u2019s \u201cmodest\u201d regulations of \u201cself-dealing\u201d pharmacy middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23-1213\/309553\/20240510143219702_2024-05-10%20Final%20OK%20PCMA%20cert%20petition.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a petition<\/a> for certiorari filed this month, Clement has asked the justices to review a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decision that federal law preempts a 2019 Oklahoma statute regulating PBM business practices. That decision followed a court challenge to the law filed by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, a trade group representing PBMs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran U.S. Supreme Court lawyer Paul Clement has taken another case to the high court on behalf of Oklahoma, this time in defense of the state\u2019s \u201cmodest\u201d regulations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1409,143,327,1411,1407,1128,1410,1408],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-clement","tag-court","tag-high","tag-middlemen","tag-oklahoma","tag-paul","tag-pharmacy","tag-taps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}