IN RE CARDIZEM CD ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 00-2483.

332 F.3d 896 (2003)

In re: CARDIZEM CD ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Louisiana Wholesale Drug Co., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., and Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 13, 2003.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied: July 24, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Cohen (argued and briefed), Stephen Lowey (briefed), Peter D. St Phillip, Jr. (briefed), Lowey, Dannenberg, Bemporad & Selinger, White Plains, NY, Bruce E. Gerstein (briefed), Barry S. Taus (briefed), Garwin, Bronzaft, Gerstein & Fisher, New York City, Elwood S. Simon, Lance C. Young, Elwood S. Simon & Associates, Birmingham, MI, Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. (briefed), Jennifer S. Abrams (briefed), Berman, DeValerio, Pease & Tabacco, San Francisco, CA, Patrick E. Cafferty (briefed), Miller Faucher, Chertow Cafferty & Wexler, Ann Arbor, MI, Richard B. Drubel (argued and briefed), Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Hanover, NH, Scott E. Perwin (briefed), Kenny, Nachwalter, Seymour, Arnold, Critchlow & Spector, Miami, FL, Douglas H. Patton (briefed), Dewsnup, King & Olsen, Salt Lake City, UT, Steve D. Shadowen (argued and briefed), Michael J. colleran (briefed), Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Harrisburg, PA, Neill W. Clark, Eric L. Cramer (briefed), Daniel Berger (briefed), Berger & Montague, Philadelphia, PA, Angela K. Green (briefed), William W. Sellers (briefed), Niewald, Waldeck & Brown, Kansas City MO, for Appellees.

Louis M. Solomon (argued and briefed), Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, New York City, Kathleen McCree Lewis (briefed), Dykema Gossett, Detroit, MI, James R. Eiszner (briefed), Joseph M. Rebein (briefed), Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Craig L. John, Dykema Gossett, Bloomfield Hills, MI, David E. Everson (argued), Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, MO, Norman C. Ankers, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Bingham Farms, MI, for Appellants.

Marjorie E. Powell (briefed), Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, Karen N. Walker (briefed), Edwin J. U (briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Paul E. Slater (briefed), Sperling, Slater & Spitz, Chicago, IL, Paul F. Novak, Asst. Atty. General (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Natural Resources Division, Lansing, MI, Jay Himes (briefed), Attorney General, State of New York, Kathleen L. Harris (briefed), New York, NY, Michael R. Schuster (briefed), Sarah L. Lock (briefed), American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, Donald Louis Bell II (briefed), Alexandria, VA, for Amici Curiae.

Before: SILER and CLAY, Circuit Judges; OBERDORFER, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied: July 24, 2003.

OPINION

OBERDORFER, District Judge.

This antitrust case arises out of an agreement entered into by the defendants, Hoescht Marion Roussel, Inc. ("HMR"), the manufacturer of the prescription drug Cardizem CD, and Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Andrx"), then a potential manufacturer of a generic version of that drug. The agreement provided, in essence, that Andrx, in exchange for quarterly payments...

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