IN RE PHARM. INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION

No. MDL 1456. No. CIV.A.01-12257-PBS.

339 F.Supp.2d 165 (2004)

In re: PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION County of Suffolk v. Abbott Laboratories, et al.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

September 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Aaronson, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for Baxter International, Inc., Defendant.

Daniel F. Attridge, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for B. Braun Medical Inc., B. Braun of America, Defendants.

Gary L. Azorsky, Berger & Montague, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., Plaintiff.

Anita B. Bapooji, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, Boston, MA, Steven F. Barley, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Amgen Inc., Defendant.

Douglas S. Brooks, Kelly, Libby & Hoopes, PC, Boston, MA, for Amgen Inc., Defendant.

Rebecca Bedwell-Coll, Mascone, Emblidge & Quadra, San Francisco, CA, for Constance Thompson, John B. Rice, Plaintiffs.

Mark A. Berman, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., Newark, NJ, for Berlax Laboratories, Inc., Reliant Pharmaceuticals, LLC, Defendants.

Steve W. Berman, Hagens & Berman, Seattle, WA, for Shirley Geller, State of Nevada, State of Montana, All Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs.

David J. Bershad, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, NY, for Citizens for Consumer Justice, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Congress of California Seniors, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care For All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance For Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, Citizen Action of New York, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Gray Panthers of Sacramento, Health Action of New Mexico, Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, North Carolina Fair Share, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, United Senior Action of Indiana, Inc., Betty Sicher, Jack Douglas, Joan S. Lee, John Bennett, Pearl Munic, Sue Miles, Plaintiffs.

Aimee E. Bierman, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Boston, MA, for Aventis Behring LLC, Aventis Pharma, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Aventis Pharmacy, Hoescht Marion Roussel, Inc., Defendants.

Jack B. Blumenfeld, Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, for Astrazeneca PLC, Consolidated Defendant.

Thomas L. Boeder, Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA, for Immunex Corp., Defendant.

Anthony Bolognese, Bolognese & Associates, Philadelphia, PA, for United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

James J. Breen, Breen Law firm, Alpharetta, GA, for Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., Plaintiff.

Jill Lori Brenner, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, MA, for Baxter Healthcare Corp., Baxter International, Inc., Defendants.

Nicole Y. Brumsted, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Boston, MA, for Citizens for Consumer Justice, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Congress of California Seniors, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care For All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance For Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, Plaintiffs.

Michael M. Buchman, Milbert, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, New York, NY, for Colorado Progressive Coalition, Congress of California Seniors, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care For All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance For Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, Citizens for Consumer Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Gray Panthers of Sacramento, Health Action of New Mexico, Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, North Carolina Fair Share, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, United Senior Action of Indiana, Inc., Betty Sicher, Jack Douglas, Joan S. Lee, John Bennett, Pearl Munic, Sue Miles, Plaintiffs.

James C. Burling, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for American Home Products Corp., Biogen, Inc., Defendants.

David J. Burman, Perkins Coie, Seattle, WA, for Immunex Corp., Defendant.

Evan Dean Buxner, Chicago, IL, for All Plaintiffs, Plaintiff.

James P. Carroll, Jr., Kirby McInerney & Squire, New York, NY, for Suffolk County (N.Y.), Plaintiff.

Tod S. Cashin, Buchanan Ingersoll, PC, Princeton, NJ, for Aventis Behring LLC, Consolidated Defendant.

Ronald L. Castle, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, Plotkin & Kahn, LLC, Washington, DC, for Chiron, Defendant.

William F. Cavanaugh, Jr., Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Centocor, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Inc., OrthoNeutrogena, Defendants.

David J. Cerveny, Proskaver Rose LLP, Boston, MA, for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Defendant.

Eric P. Christofferson, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Boston, MA, for Schering-Plough, Corp, Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Consolidated Defendants.

Joanne M. Cicala, Kirby McInerncy & Squire, New York, NY, for Suffolk County (N.Y.), County of Westchester, County of Rockland, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Daniel J. Cloherty, Dwyer & Collora LLP, Boston, MA, for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Defendants.

Jonathan D Cohen, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Boston, MA, for Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Defendant.

Jeremy P. Cole, Jones Day, Chicago, IL, for Abbott Laboratories, Defendant.

Christopher R. Cook, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Abbott Laboratories, Defendant.

Robert C. Cook, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Abbott Laboratories, Defendant.

Michael R. Costa, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Boston, Ma, for Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Defendant.

Paul J. Coval, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, LLP, Columbus, OH, for Bedford Laboratories, Ben Venue Laboratories Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Corp., Consolidated Defendants.

William M. Cowan, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC, Boston, MA, for Eli Lilly and Company, Defendant.

Florence A Crisp, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Astrazeneca PLC, Consolidated Defendant.

Jonathan W. Cuneo, Cuneo Law Group, Washington, DC, for Shirley Geller, Consolidated Plaintiff.

Christopher J. Cunio, Cooley, Manion, & Jones, LLP, Boston, MA, for ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendant.

Joseph Danis, The David Danis Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Citizen Action of New York, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Gray Panthers of Sacramento, Health Action of New Mexico, Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, North Carolina Fair Share, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, United Senior Action of Indiana, Inc., Betty Sicher, Jack Douglas, Joan S. Lee, John Bennett, Pearl Munic, Sue Miles, All Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs.

William A. Davis, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC, Washington, DC, for Eli Lilly and Company, Defendant.

Michael DeMarco, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Boston, MA, for Aventis Pharmacy, Aventis Behring LLC, Consolidated Defendants.

Merle M. Delancey, Jr., Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, for Baxter International, Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corp., Baxter Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Consolidated Defendants.

Jeanne E. Demers, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP, Boston, MA, for Aventis Pharmacy, Defendant.

John C. Dodds, Morgan Lewis & Boskius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc., Pharmacia Corp., Pfizer, Inc., Consolidated Defendants.

Lloyd Donders, Kirby McInerney & Squire, New York, NY, for Suffolk County (N.Y.), County of Rockland, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Alan J. Droste, Todd G. Friedland, Pillsbury Winthrop, Costa Mesa, CA, for Gensia Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendant.

James J Duffy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Astrazeneca PLC, Consolidated Defendant.

Dennis M. Duggan, Jr., Nixon Peabody, LLP, Boston, MA, for Alpha Therapeutic Corporation, Defendant.

Kimberly A. Dunne, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA, for Baxter Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Consolidated Defendant.

Thomas E. Dwyer, Jr., Dwyer & Collora, LLP, Boston, MA, for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Defendants.

Marc H. Edelson, Hoffman & Edelson, Doylestown, PA, for United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Mitchell Edwards, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc., Pharmacia Corp., Defendants.

Steven M. Edwards, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York, NY, for Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Apothecon, Consolidated Defendants.

Robert G. Eisler, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY, for Citizens for Consumer Justice, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Congress of California Seniors, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care For All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance For Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, Plaintiffs.

Bruce E. Falby, Piper Rudnick LLP, Boston, MA, for Sicor, Inc., Defendant.

Douglas Farquhar, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C., Washington, DC, for Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendant.

Eric B. Fastiff, Leiff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Citizen Action of New York, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Gray Panthers of Sacramento, Health Action of New Mexico, Maine Consumers for Affordable Health Care, North Carolina Fair Share, Oregon Health Action Campaign, Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, United Senior Action of Indiana, Inc., Betty Sicher, Jack Douglas, Joan S. Lee, John Bennett, Pearl Munic, Sue Miles, Plaintiffs.

Joseph B.G. Fay, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc., Pharmacia Corp., Defendants.

Anastasia M. Fernands, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA, for Allergan Worldwide, Bayer, AG, Defendants.

Elizabeth S. Finberg, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, Washington, DC, for Sicor, Inc., Defendant.

Kathryn C. Finnerty, Pittsburgh, PA, Evan Georgopoulos, Gary R. Greenberg, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Boston, MA, for Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Defendant.

Matthew A. Fischer, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, CA, for Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Defendant.

Michael J. Flannery, The David Danis Law Firm, P.C., St. Louis, MO, for Citizens for Consumer Justice, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Congress of California Seniors, Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, Health Care For All, Massachusetts Senior Action Council, Masspirg, Minnesota Senior Federation, New Jersey Citizen Action, New York State Wide Senior Action Council, Pennsylvania Alliance For Retired Americans, Vermont Public Interest Research Group, West Virginia Citizen Action, Wisconsin Citizen Action, All Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs.

Lucy Fowler, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA, for Astrazeneca PLC, All Defendants, Centocor, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceuticals products, L.P., Johnson & Johnson, McNeil-PPC, Inc., Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Defendants.

Brian V. Frankel, Department of Justice, California Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse, San Diego, CA, for State of California, Plaintiff.

Jeffrey S. Friedman, Silverman & McDonald, Wilmington, DE, for Leroy Townsend, Consolidated Plaintiff.

Todd S. Garber, Lowey Dannenberg Bemporad & Selinger, P.C., White Plains, NY, for Aetna, Inc., Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Humana, Inc., Interested Parties.

Scott Garland, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Astrazeneca US, Defendant.

Martin F. Gaynor, III, Cooley, Manion, Jones LLP, Boston, MA, for ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendant.

Peter E. Gelhaar, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, MA, for Baxter International, Inc., Defendant.

David C. Giardina, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Allergan Worldwide, Bayer Corp., Defendants.

Alison C. Gilbert, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York, NY, for Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Defendant.

Arthur F. Golden, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Astrazeneca US, Defendant.

David F. Graham, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Allergan Worldwide, Bayer Corp., Defendants.

Karen F. Green, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Defendant.

Daniel E. Gustafson, Heins Mills & Olson, P.L.C., Minneapolis, MN, for Action Alliance of Senior Citizens of Greater Philadelphia, United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Erik Haas, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, for Centocor, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceuticals products, L.P., Johnson & Johnson, McNeil-PPC, Inc., Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., Ortho McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Inc., OrthoNeutrogena, Defendants.

Elizabeth I. Hack, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, Washington, DC, for Sicor, Inc., Defendant.

Blake M. Harper, Hulett Harper, San Diego, CA, for Action Alliance of Senior Citizens of Greater Philadelphia, Twin Cities Baker Workers Health & Welfare Fund, United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Kimberley D. Harris, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Astrazeneca US, Defendant.

Elizabeth Fegan Hartweg, Kenneth A. Wexler & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Action Alliance of Senior Citizens of Greater Philadelphia, Twin Cities Baker Workers Health & Welfare Fund, United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Reed Elliott Harvey, Pillsbury Winthrop, Costa Mesa, CA, Kirke M. Hasson, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Gensia Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sicor, Inc., Defendants.

Joseph Ernest Haviland, Dwyer & Collora, LLP, Boston, MA, for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Consolidated Defendants.

James Vincent Hayes, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC, for Abbott Laboratories, Apothecon, Baxter Healthcare Corp., Baxter International, Inc., Berlax Laboratories, Inc., Biogen, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Centocor, Inc., Dey LP, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., Fujisawa USA, Inc., Gensia Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Glaxosmithkline, Janssen Pharmaceuticals products, L.P., Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Oncology Therapeutics Network Corp., Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., Purdue Pharma L.P., Reliant Pharmaceauticals, LLC, Sanofi-Synthelabo, Inc., Sicor, Inc., Defendants.

George B. Henderson, United States Attorney's Office, Boston, MA, for All Plaintiffs, Plaintiff.

Colleen M. Hennessey, Peabody & Arnold LLP, Boston, MA, for Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Sanofi-Synthelabo, Inc., Defendants.

Mary Ellen Hennessy, Katten Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, IL, for Fujisawa USA, Inc., Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., Defendants.

Frederick G. Herold, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Howard A. Smithline, Glaxosmithkline, PLC, Defendants.

Nicola R. Heskett, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Aventis Pharma, Aventis Pharmacy, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Hoescht Marion Roussel, Inc., Defendants.

Robert J. Higgins, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Washington, DC, for Baxter International, Inc., Defendant.

Aaron D. Hovan, Kirby McInerney & Squire LLP, New York, NY.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendants have moved to dismiss the Amended Complaint filed by the County of Suffolk in New York in this multi-district litigation involving allegations of fraud against various pharmaceutical companies.1 Suffolk alleges that Defendant pharmaceutical manufacturers have fraudulently inflated the published average wholesale prices ("AWP's") of their drugs...

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