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JEFFERSON COUNTY PHARM. ASSN. v. ABBOTT LABS.

No. 81-827.

460 U.S. 150 (1983)

JEFFERSON COUNTY PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, INC. v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1983

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe L. Tucker, Jr., argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

David Klingsberg argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief for respondents Abbott Laboratories et al. was Michael Malina. John J. Coleman, Jr., E. Mabry Rogers, and Ina B. Leonard filed a brief for respondent Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama.*

George H. Cross filed a brief for the National Association of Counties as amicus curiae.

JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue presented is whether the sale of pharmaceutical products to state and local government hospitals for resale in competition with private retail pharmacies is exempt from the proscriptions of the Robinson-Patman Act.

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Petitioner, a trade association of retail pharmacists and pharmacies doing business in Jefferson County, Alabama, commenced this...

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