At a hearing in April, Arnold & Porter’s Lisa Blatt implored the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to swiftly overturn an injunction barring Actavis plc from pulling an old version of its blockbuster Alzheimer’s drug, Namenda, off the market. The three-judge panel heeded her plea to act quickly—it ruled less than six weeks after oral arguments—but Blatt’s other arguments apparently weren’t as persuasive.

In a one-page order accompanying a sealed opinion, the panel on Friday decided to keep the injunction in place, affirming a widely reverberating loss for Actavis before U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan.

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