Lynch Ex Rel. Health & Welfare Fund v. National Prescription Administrators, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the parens-patriae doctrine “permits the state to commence an action to protect a public interest, like the safety, health[,] or welfare of its citizens” (citation omitted)
• “Claim preclusion . . . is an affirmative defense. Ordinarily, it is incumbent on the defendant to plead and prove such a defense.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).