Pharmacist Sues Alabama Board Over New Rules

0:00It's April 6th. This is Birmingham News today, powered by AI. A Jefferson County pharmacist named Emily Pinnon just filed a lawsuit against the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy over their latest rules cracking down on the profession. This comes after she sued them back in October over some emergency rules and the board backed off and dropped those. Now she's targeting a fresh set of rules the board proposed last December with help from Birmingham lawyer Joseph Krebs, who's been calling out the board for years. Krebs says the board acts like it can ignore new state laws, treating pharmacists like cash machines for insiders and dodging reforms from Act 20, 25-372 and the Administrator Procedure Act. Lawmakers passed that reform bill this year to reign in the board, but this sued aims to block the new rules and prove their unlawful, keeping the pressure on as the case moves forward in court.