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This document is a Supreme Court decision regarding a petition challenging a law requiring drug stores to provide 20% discounts on medicines to senior citizens and persons with disabilities. The Court had previously upheld a similar law providing discounts to senior citizens. The petition argued the discount requirement amounted to an unconstitutional taking of private property without compensation. However, the Court ruled that requiring discounts was a legitimate exercise of police power for public welfar

Author

Gwen Alistaer Canale

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