Judge Dismisses AIDS Group’s UCL Suit For Vendor’s Failure To Get Low Drug Prices

Mealey's (April 11, 2023, 2:18 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on April 10 dismissed with prejudice a nonprofit AIDS health care provider’s lawsuit accusing one of its vendors of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) for allegedly failing to negotiate “sub-ceiling” prices on its behalf, finding that the provider as a member of a federal health care program has no “private right of action” against the vendor....