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Monday, January 25, 2021
Price gouging enforcement and litigation is front and center for company counsel and business managers nationwide. Our weekly round up highlights some of the most relevant news and information for our clients and friends.
One day after taking office, President Biden issued an executive order indicating that his administration may take a more aggressive approach to preventing price gouging. The executive order directs “immediate actions to secure supplies necessary for responding to the pandemic, so that those supplies are available, and remain available, to the Federal Government and State, local, Tribal, and territorial authorities, as well as to America’s health care workers, health systems, patients.” To address pricing of pandemic response supplies, the executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to recommend to the President whether changes should be made to a previously issued executive order titled, Preventing