CARSON CITY, Nev. (Legal Newsline) – Pfizer, Inc., is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to hear its argument against the contingency fee agreement entered into by private attorneys who are representing the state Attorney General’s Office in a lawsuit against it.

Pfizer and two of its companies filed a petition Friday in the Nevada Supreme Court, challenging Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto’s use of private law firms White & Wetherall and Littlepage Booth in a case against Pfizer over its marketing and sale of certain hormone therapy medicines.