State AG Updates: October 20-26, 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 attorneys general submitted an amicus brief in Pharmaceutical Care Management Association v. Glen Mulready, et. al. The brief supports Oklahoma's laws that regulate pharmacy benefit managers, and advocates that "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." Pharmaceutical Care Management Association's broad approach to federal preemption, however, would "severely impede states' abilities to protect their residents and potentially upend licensing and regulatory structures in nearly every state."