IN RE NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 15-2005, 15-2006, 15-2007.

842 F.3d 34 (2016)

IN RE: NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION. American Sales Company, LLC, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; Value Drug Company; Burlington Drug Company Inc.; Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc., on behalf of itself and others similarly situated; Meijer, Inc.; Meijer Distribution, Inc.; Allied Services Division Welfare Fund; Laborers International Union of North America Local 17 Health Care Fund; Laborers International Union of North America Local 35 Health Care Fund; A.F. of L.A.G.C. Building Trades Welfare Plan; Fraternal Order of Police Miami Lodge 20 Insurance Trust Fund; New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Assoc. of New York City, Inc. Health Benefits Fund; United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund; Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters Employee Benefits Fund; International Union of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District No. 15 Health Fund; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 595 Health and Welfare Fund; Walgreen Co.; The Kroger Company; Safeway Incorporated; Supervalu, Inc.; Heb Grocery Co. LP; Giant Eagle, Inc.; Rite Aid Corporation; Rite Aid Headquarters Corporation; JCG (PJC) USA, LLC; Maxi Drug, Inc., d/b/a Brooks Pharmacy; Eckerd Corporation; CVS, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. AstraZeneca LP; AstraZeneca AB; Aktiebolaget Hassle; Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Ranbaxy Inc.; Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Sobol , with whom David S. Nalven , Cambridge, MA, Kristen A. Johnson , James J. Nicklaus , Kristie A. LaSalle , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Bruce E. Gerstein , Joseph Opper , Elena K. Chan , Ephraim R. Gerstein , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, LLP, David F. Sorensen , Ellen Noteware , Daniel C. Simons , Caitlin G. Coslett , Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Linda P. Nussbaum , Nussbaum Law Group, P.C., New York, NY, Steve D. Shadowen , Hilliard & Shadowen LLP, Austin, TX, Kenneth A. Wexler , Bethany R. Turke , Justin N. Boley , Wexler Wallace LLP, Chicago, IL, J. Douglas Richards , Sharon K. Robertson , Donna M. Evans , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC, New York, NY, Jayne A. Goldstein , Pomerantz LLP, Matthew Wessler , and Gupta Wessler PLLC were on brief, for direct purchaser and end-payor class appellants.

Barry L. Refsin , Philadelphia, PA, Monica L. Rebuck , Harrisburg, PA, Maureen S. Lawrence , Philadelphia, PA, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Bernard D. Marcus , Moira Cain-Mannix , Pittsburgh, PA, Marcus & Shapira LLP, Richard A. Arnold , Scott E. Perwin , Lauren C. Ravkind , Anna T. Neill , and Kenny Nachwalter, P.A., Miami, FL, on brief for individual retailer appellants.

Kannon K. Shanmugam , with whom Dane H. Butswinkas , Paul B. Gaffney , John E. Schmidtlein , and Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC, were on brief, for appellees AstraZeneca LP, AstraZeneca AB, and Aktiebolaget Hassle.

Jay P. Lefkowitz , P.C., with whom Steven J. Menashi , Amanda Elbogen , New York, NY, Jonathan D. Janow , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, James Douglas Baldridge , Lisa Jose Fales , Danielle R. Foley , Vincent E. Verrocchio , and Venable LLP, Washington, DC, were on brief, for appellees Ranbaxy Inc., Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc., and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.

Mark S. Hegedus , Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, Deborah L. Feinstein , Director, Markus H. Meier , Acting Deputy Director, Bradley S. Albert , Deputy Assistant Director, Elizabeth R. Hilder , Attorney, Bureau of Competition, Daniel W. Butrymowicz , Attorney, Bureau of Competition, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein , General Counsel, and Joel Marcus , Director of Litigation, on brief for Federal Trade Commission, amicus curiae.

Before Lynch, Stahl, and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


This appeal arises from the first pharmaceutical-settlement antitrust action tried before a jury since the Supreme Court's decision in FTC v. Actavis, Inc., ___ U.S. ___, 133 S.Ct. 2223, 186 L.Ed.2d 343 (2013). The jury found that although the plaintiffs...

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