Melvin, the lawsuit isn’t trying to get money from various government officials personally (which would be impossible to do successfully in a case like this.) Its purpose is to change the rule. If an Obama administration official made the rule but is now out of office, it’s pointless to sue them now because they cannot change the rule even if a court orders them to.

A lot of drugs even if not liquid in a pure state, can be dissolved in liquids and later be extracted from them.

There’s part of this I am not understanding: I realize the plaintiffs have to sue the department and the Secretary or head of that department or agency (as defendants).

BUT: Since the “Final Rule”, in some significant part the basis for the lawsuit, came out in 2016–a time of a different President and department heads—why are the plaintiffs not suing the people in charge in 2016 of the various departments and agencies, as well?

Otherwise known as the “wet streets cause rain” fallacy. And for that capsule I am indebted to Michael Crichton.