Nor was he ruling out a challenge from his team-mate.
The Federal District Court in Maine, ruling in a challenge brought by the industry, blocked the statute from taking effect on the ground that it was not authorized by the federal Medicaid law.
The court is expected to issue its ruling on a challenge to the law this summer.
While the ruling ends a challenge from bondholders, the $52 billion buyout still faces uncertainty over its financing and, more broadly, questions about the value of the company.
The ruling upheld a challenge by the Islamic Defenders Front, a vigilante group known for occasionally smashing up bars that it views as affronts to Islam and forcibly closing Christian churches and the mosques of Muslim minorities.
The ruling followed a challenge by a number of rivals including Teva and Novartis, and comes as the drug faces growing generic competition in the US and Europe this month.
Bill Gates, the company's chairman, even had the chutzpah to say that this week's ruling was a challenge to "healthy competition in the software industry".Yet as the trial has shown, Mr Gates's tactics have consistently not been those of healthy competition.
This ruling in a challenge to a tax bill of under $200 had the effect of enabling Indian tribes nationwide to earn over $200 billion in gaming revenue as of 2007.
"It is absolutely clear to the Constitutional Court that laws governing an election must be applied rigorously," the court's 14 judges said in their ruling on a challenge brought by FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache.
President Erdogan, who took the ruling as a challenge to his power and executive presidency ambitions, said that he does not respect and does not even recognize the decision of the Supreme Court.
