State AG Updates: October 13-19, 2022

Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week's updates.

Multistate

• A bipartisan coalition of 35 state attorneys general, led by Minnesota Attorney General Ellison, filed an amicus brief to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting Oklahoma's laws that regulate abusive behavior of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Oklahoma's laws are being challenged by the PBM industry's national lobbying association, Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. The amicus brief seeks to assure that all states can regulate PBMs and says "states have an interest in preserving states' authority to regulate companies doing business in their states, protecting their residents' access to healthcare, and curbing abusive business practices. To advance these interests, nearly all states regulate pharmacy benefit managers." The case before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals is PCMA v. Mulready