The Washington Times hails the Alabama Supreme Court's tossing out of wholesale price litigation, and notes the role of the state's private contingency-fee counsel:
Writing for the court, Alabama Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Woodall agreed that the Alabama suit was "an attempt to use tort law to re-define [Alabama's] Medicaid reimbursement obligations." Or, in short, it was what Justice Woodall described as illegitimate "regulation by litigation."