On Feb. 3, 2012, Cardinal Health was granted a temporary restraining order against the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) immediate suspension order of its Lakeland, Fla. DEA registration.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Reggie B. Walton granted the temporary restraining order that allows Cardinal Health to immediately resume shipments of controlled medicines from its Lakeland facility to hospital and pharmacy customers pending a preliminary injunction hearing currently scheduled for February 13.
The order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is available here: http://ecom.cardinalhealth.com/cardinalhealth/attachments/order.pdf.