Walmart v. DOJ & DEA

On October 22, 2020, Walmart, Inc. submitted a lawsuit suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The lawsuit asks a federal court to clarify the roles and responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacies under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The DOJ has threatened a lawsuit against Walmart, saying that pharmacists should have refused to fill otherwise valid opioid prescriptions that were written by doctors who are approved to write prescriptions under the federal government. This lawsuit against DOJ is being brought because pharmacists traditionally do not interfere in the doctor-patient relationship to the . . .