The Court in Astra USA explained that Congress not only declined to include third-party litigation as an enforcement mechanism inthe PHS Act, it passed on a subsequent opportunity to create a private right when informed that HHS oversight of Medicaid pricing was sorely lacking.
But the plaintiffs inthe lawsuit argued that the Florida Reform Party no longer met a requirement that it be affiliated with a national party holding a national convention to nominate presidential candidates because the Reform PartyUSA -- the remnants of a movement spearheaded by Ross Perot in 1992 -- no longer met that definition.