That's not the issue. The issue is that the law is a Consituttionally-impermissible "taking" under the Fifth Ammendment, since any legally-set maximum price at which something may be sold steals from the seller the difference between the market price and the one set by law.
I have an awful time understanding why a drug made in America costs more in America than it does in Canada.
No problem with this law...as long as the salaries and benefit pkgs. of city workers are the same as those in foreign countries. Haiti or Ethiopia, for example.
If this hadn't been struck down, if I were a drug company I'd have removed my products from the D.C. market.
What else might this judge do on drugs, I wonder?
At last, something sensible today.