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Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Law Restricting Use of Prescriber-Identifiable Data

By Libbie Canter on June 23, 2011
Posted in Health Privacy, Marketing

Today, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law restricting the sale, disclosure, and use of pharmacy records that reveal the prescribing practices of individual doctors.  In so holding, the Supreme Court found that speech in aid of pharmaceutical marketing is a form of expression protected by the First…

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