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RUTLEDGE v. PHARMACEUTICAL CARE 
MANAGEMENT ASSN. 
Opinion of the Court 

or other law, that increases the cost of providing benefits to 
covered employees will have some effect on the administra-
tion  of  ERISA  plans,  but  that  simply  cannot  mean  that 
every state law with such an effect is pre-empted by the fed-
eral statute”). 

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  In sum, Act 900 amounts to cost regulation that does not 
bear  an  impermissible  connection  with  or  reference  to 
ERISA.  The judgment of the Eighth Circuit is therefore re-
versed,  and  the  case  is  remanded  for  further  proceedings 
consistent with this opinion. 

It is so ordered. 

  JUSTICE BARRETT took no part in the consideration or de-
cision of this case.