Starting January 1, 2026, any out-of-state pharmacy licensed in Illinois will need to have a...
Another Lilly suit tossed. As expected, a federal judge threw out yet another of Eli Lilly’s lawsuits, this one against Mochi Health. In short, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled, Lilly couldn’t show that its reputation had been damaged by Mochi’s compounding of tirzepatide. (In legalese, “[Lilly] fails to allege facts that plausibly support an inference of reputational harm, and thus, an inference of injury. Without injury, there is no standing.”) That’s the third swing-and-miss for Lilly in the last few months.
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Dispense to Illinois? Take note. If your pharmacy is licensed in Illinois, even if you’re not based in the state, effective January 1, 2026 your pharmacist-in-charge will be required to hold an active Illinois pharmacist license. (Possibly noteworthy: The state law doesn’t mention dispensing in the state — a pharmacy simply being licensed there triggers that requirement.)
Double time from the FDA? The folks at FDA Law Blog noticed something possibly interesting. Normally the agency gives offending companies 15 days to respond to a warning letter, but twice now it’s given offenders 30 days. Two medical device manufacturers, FC Company and Dongguan Rainbow Tech, were given twice the normal time to submit a response. Is it a sign of things to come? The result of staffing cuts at the agency? The government shutdown? No clue, although the bloggers don’t think it signals a longer-term change. “[W]e do not expect that the 30-business day response period will be routinely added to future Warning Letters,” they wrote. “At this point, they are still an anomaly!”
