IN RE SYNTHROID MARKETING LITIGATION

No. 97 C 6017, MDL NO. 1182.

110 F.Supp.2d 676 (2000)

In re SYNTHROID MARKETING LITIGATION

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin Alan Miller, Miller, Faucher and Cafferty, Chicago, IL, Duane C. Quaini, Christopher Qualley King, John Claiborne Koski, Erika K. Powers, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Michael D. Hausfeld, Lisa M. Messetti, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, DC, Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA, for Linda Strauss, Ruben Ayala, Reynaldo Pena, Gladys Alderman, Julianne Rausch.

Lowell E. Sachnoff, Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Sandora Davila, Richard Saenz.

Scott Rhead Shepherd, Shepherd & Geller, LLC, Boca Raton, FL, for Mae Fischer.

Gary D. McCallister, Gary D. McCallister & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Pamela B. Slate, Cinda R. York, Donaldson Guin and Slate, LLC, Birmingham, AL for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Co., Alabama Meidcaid Agency, State of Louisiana, Dept. of Health and Hospitals.

Lynde Selden, II, Selden Law Firm, San Diego, CA, Theodore J. Holt, Hackard, Holt & Heller, Gold River, CA, Richard H. Rosenthal, Law Offices of Richard H. Rosenthal, Carmel Valley, CA, for Rosalie Lynch, Gordon Fjeld.

Marc Davd Sherman, Rena M. Honorow, Lincolnwood, IL, for Jeanette C. Miller.

James L. Johnson, Johnson Law Firm, Dallas, TX, for Cigna Healthcare.

Elizabeth Leigh Thompson, Lindley J. Brenza, Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palencher & Scott, Joseph C. Kohn, Joanne Zack, Douglas A. Abrahams, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Gregory P. Hansel, Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachio & Haley, L.L.C., Portland, ME, for Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Corporate Health Insurance.

James F. Flug, Duncan, Weinberg, Miller & Penbroke, P.C., Washington, DC, for State of Michigan.

Michael D. Monico, Monico, Pavich & Spevack, Chicago, IL, James W. Bergenn, Theodore M. Space, Ross gARBER, Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford, CT, Mark D. Fischer, Rawlings & Associates, Louisville, KY, for Certain Benefit Providers, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Boots Pharmaceuticals.

Delilah Brummet, Attorney at Law, Chicago, IL, Tyrone C. Faher, Diane Julia Romza-Kutz, Diane Green-Kelly, Kenneth J. Merlino, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Duane C. Quaini, Christopher Qualley King, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL, Terrence A. Callan, Mary B. Cranston, Roxane A. Polidora, Saul D. bercovitch, Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, San Francisco, CA, for Knoll Pharmaceutical Co., BASF Corp., Neil Kurtz, Carter H. Eckert, Gilbert H. Mayor.

Charles Gilbert Fergus, Sandra S. Paguaga, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, Rebecca Desiree Ward, Hopkins & Sutter, P.C., Chicago, IL, Randall L. Mitchell, James Dominick Adducci, Marshall Lee Blankenship, Adducci, Dorf, Lehner, Mitchell & Blankenship, Chicago, Il, for Flint Laboratories.

John Robert Sears, Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City, MO, for State of Missouri.

John B. Howard, Jr., Office of Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, for State of Maryland.

R. Stephen Griffis, Birmingham, AL, for Ethylyn Pugh.

Lawrence W. Schonbrun, Berkeley, CA, for Ruby H. Davis.

Jane Elizabeth Reames, Brenner & Moltzen, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Cynthia L. Artim, Lisa Delgado, Sherrie A. Sitton, Lorrie Mead.

Keareny Dee Hutsler, Thompson, Hutsler Law Firm, Birmingham, AL, Robert Patrick Cummins, Thomas Cusack Cummins, Cummins & Cronin, LLC, Chicago, IL, for Chromium Industries.

R. Steven Baker, Southern Law Group, P.C., Birmingham, Al, for Dana Williamson, Debra Jones, Betty Millinax.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Synthroid is a synthetic version of levothyroxine sodium, one of several levothyroxine drugs used to treat thyroid disorders. There are eight million users of such drugs in the United States. The market for these drugs is $600 million a year. Synthroid had 70-90% of this market in the period at issue in this case. Consumers and third party payors filed this class action lawsuit against Knoll Pharmaceutical...

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