A Jefferson County pharmacist has filed a lawsuit against the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy, accusing the agency of adopting unlawful emergency rules to impose new fines and generate revenue in defiance of a state law designed to stop this kind of conduct.

The complaint, filed October 1 in Montgomery County Circuit Court by Dr. Emily Singletary Pinon, a licensed pharmacist practicing in Bibb County, alleges that the Board’s emergency rules, passed on August 20, violate the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act and Act 2025-372, a reform law passed earlier this year to limit excessive penalties within the agency.

In the lawsuit, Pinon seeks a declaratory judgment that the emergency rules are invalid, an injunction halting their enforcement and a refund of any fines collected under them.

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