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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 09:43 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 21 November 2007 09:43
The prescription drug data-mining industry opened yet another legal battlefront, this time in Maine, where no less than six firms are involved in a lawsuit to block a state law that would allow physicians, nurses and other prescribers to “opt out” of having their prescription drug information used for detailing and other pharmaceutical marketing purposes.Monday was the first day of hearings before U.S. District Court Judge John Woodcock Jr. in Bangor on the request for an injunction filed by the data-miners in August. They are asking to have the Maine Prescription Restraint Law declared unconstitutional. Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe is named the defendant and is arguing in support of the law.