Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Vermont Law's Restrictions on Data Mining Are Unconstitutional
July 31, 2011 at 08:00 PM EST
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court June 23 affirmed a federal appeals court ruling striking down as unconstitutional a section of a Vermont statute that prohibits the sale or use of data identifying health care providers' prescribing patterns in the marketing or promoting of prescription drugs without the prescriber's consent (Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., 131 S. Ct. ... Read More
