ABBOTT LABORATORIES v. CELEBREZZE

No. 15055.

352 F.2d 286 (1965)

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, et al. v. Anthony J. CELEBREZZE, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and George P. Larrick, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Goodrich, Washington, D. C. (Joanne S. Sisk, Attorney, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D. C., Herbert J Miller, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Alexander Greenfeld, U. S. Atty., William J. Wier, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Jerry H. Opack, Attorney, Department of Justice, on the brief), for appellant.

Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C. (Stanley L. Temko, Herbert Dym, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees (except Merck & Co., Inc. and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass'n).

Hayward H. Coburn, Philadelphia, Pa. (Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Merck & Co., Inc.

Lloyd N. Cutler, Washington, D. C. (Marshall Hornblower, Daniel K. Mayers, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass'n.

C. Joseph Stetler, John K. Worley, Washington, D. C., for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass'n.

Alexander L. Nichols, Wilmington, Del. (William S. Megonigal, Jr., Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HASTIE and FREEDMAN, Circuit Judges, and WEBER, District Judge.


WEBER, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment and injunction granted to plaintiffs in the District Court which holds that regulations issued and promulgated by defendants, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Commissioner of Food and Drugs are null and void and not authorized by the statute on which they are based. The injunction restrains the defendants and all parties acting under them from enforcing or attempting to enforce...

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