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FREE v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, INC.

No. 97-31341.

176 F.3d 298 (1999)

Robin FREE and Renee Free, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, INC., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc., and Mead Johnson & Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Adam Small, Matthew F. Pawa, Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Patrick W. Pendley, Plaquemine, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Frank Brian Cicero, Jr., Craig A. Knot, Leslie M. Smith, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, William R. D'Armond, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, for Abbott Laboratories, Inc.

John M. Landis, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Max Rees Shulman, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, Phillip A. Whittmann, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, for Bristol Myers-Squibb Company, Inc. and Mead Johnson & Company.

Jane Bishop Johnson, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for State of Louisiana, Amicus Curiae.

Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, JONES and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, consumers of infant formula, sued the above-named manufacturers of infant formula under Louisiana's antitrust laws alleging a price-fixing conspiracy. Because this case is before us for a third time, it is unnecessary to recapitulate the procedural and factual history. See Free v. Abbott Lab., Inc., 164 F.3d 270 (5th Cir.1999); Free v. Abbott Lab., 51 F.3d...

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