“…These early studies succeeded in demonstrating that judicialization of health increased significantly over time, both in terms of the number of lawsuits being filed and in terms of the amount of resources mobilized. Studies tended to agree on key points: that the phenomenon was growing in all contexts where it was occurring; that multiple populations, and multiple state and legal actors were involved; that lawsuits originated in both private and public sectors but that the main target of the lawsuits was the government (overwhelmingly state governments); that the most frequent form of health care sought by lawsuits was access to medicines; that a wide range of different medicines were sought, from cheap, off-patent drugs that were part of government formularies to expensive, branded drugs that were sometimes not even approved for commercialization; and that courts by and large sided with patient/litigants (Biehl, Amon, Socal & Petryna, 2012;Biehl, Socal & Amon, 2016b;Borges & Uga, 2010;Campos Neto, Acurcio, Machado, Ferré, Barbosa, Cherchiglia, & Andrade, 2012;Chieffi & Barata, 2009;Da Silva & Terrazas, 2008;Messeder, Osorio-de-Castro & Luiza, 2005;Pepe, Ventura, Sant'Ana, Figueiredo, de Souza, Simas, & Osorio-de-Castro, 2010;Pereira, dos Santos, do Nascimento Junior & Schenkel, 2010).…”