HOWARD HESS DENTAL LAB. v. DENTSPLY INTERN.

No. 04-1979, 04-1980.

424 F.3d 363 (2005)

HOWARD HESS DENTAL LABORATORIES INCORPORATED; Philip Guttierez,d/b/a Dentures Plus, on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated, Appellants v. DENTSPLY INTERNATIONAL, INC. Jersey Dental Laboratories, f/k/a Howard Hess Dental Laboratories Incorporated; Philip Guttierez,d/b/a Dentures Plus, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellants v. Dentsply International, Inc.; A. Leventhal & Sons, Inc.; Accubite Dental Lab, Inc.; Addium Dental Products; Arnold Dental Supply Company; Atlanta Dental Supply Company; Benco Dental Company; Burkhart Dental Supply Company; Darby Dental Laboratory Supply Co., Inc.; Dental Supplies and Equipment, Inc.; Edentaldirect.com, Inc., as successor to Crutcher Dental, Inc.; Hendon Dental Supply, Inc.; Henry Schein, Inc., and its affiliates including, without limitation, Zahn Dental Co., Inc.; Iowa Dental Supply Co.; Jahn Dental Supply Company; JB Dental Supply Co., Inc.; Johnson & Lund Co., Inc.; Kentucky Dental Supply Company, Inc. a/k/a KDSC Liquidation Corp.; Marcus Dental Supply Co; Midway Dental Supply Inc.; Mohawk Dental Co., Inc.; Nashville Dental, Inc.; Nowak Dental Supplies, Inc.; Patterson Dental Company, its subsidiaries, predecessors, successors, assigns, affiliates and related companies; Pearson Dental Supplies, Inc.; Ryker Dental of Kentucky, Inc.; Thompson Dental Company.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed September 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Dubbs, (Argued), Richard T. Joffe, Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, New York, NY, Pamela S. Tikellis, Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Chimicles & Tikellis, LLP, Wilmington, DE, for Appellants.

Margaret M. Zwisler, (Argued), Eric J. McCarthy, Charles R. Price, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C., Richard A. Ripley, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Washington, D.C., Brian M. Addison, Dentsply International, Inc., York, PA, W. Harding Drane, Jr., Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE, C. Scott Reese, Cooch & Taylor, Wilmington, DE, James J. Maron, Maron Marvel & Wilks, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for Appellees.

Before BARRY, AMBRO and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.


AMBRO, Circuit Judge.

We consider consolidated appeals involving the same parties in two antitrust suits, Howard Hess Dental Laboratories, Inc. v. Dentsply Internationl, Inc. ("Hess") and Jersey Dental Laboratories v. Dentsply International, Inc. ("Jersey Dental").1 Plaintiffs are dental laboratories who have brought these antitrust class actions on behalf of themselves and a class of similarly situated labs...

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