Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and three subsidiaries of Sanofi are likely to get to defend Medicaid fraud claims from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in their preferred county rather than in his, a Travis County judge signaled Thursday.
Paxton has presented little evidence to show alleged wrongdoing occurred in Harrison County, where his office filed the lawsuit and often teams up with outside firms to sue pharmaceutical companies, Judge Sherine Thomas said at a hearing.
“I have some pause that some fact out there establishes jurisdiction in Harrison County,” Thomas of the 353rd district court told a lawyer in Paxton’s ...