STATE OF WISCONSIN v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

No. 05-C-408-C.

390 F.Supp.2d 815 (2005)

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff, v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Amgen, Inc., Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, Astrazeneca, LP, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aventis Behring, LLC., Baxter International, Inc., Bayer Corporation, Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Dey, Inc., Gensia Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Glaxosmithkline, Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Inc., Pfizer, Inc., Pharmacia, Schering-Plough Corporation, Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Immunex Corporation, Ivax Corporation, Ivax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceutical Products, LP, McNeil-PPC, Inc., Merck & Company, Inc., Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Ortho Biotech Products, LP, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., Sandoz, Inc., Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Watson Pharma, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

September 29, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Cameli, Lynn M. Stathas, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C., Patrick J. Knight, Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, Beth J. Kushner, Von Briesen & Roper, S.C., Brian R. Smigelski, Friebert, Finerty & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, William M. Conley, Roberta F. Howell, Foley & Lardner, Brian E. Butler, Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP, Stephen P. Hurley, Hurley, Burish & Milliken, S.C., Bruce A. Schultz, Coyne Schultz Becker & Bauer, John W. Markson, Bell, Gierhart & Moore, S.C., Lester A. Pines, Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach, Daniel W. Hildebrand, Dewitt, Ross & Stevens, Donald K. Schott, Quarles & Brady, Earl H. Munson, Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, Steven P. Means, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Michael P. Crooks, Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., David J. Harth, Heller Ehrman LLP, Kim Grimmer, Solheim, Billing & Grimmer, S.C., Madison, WI, Douglas B. Farquhar, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, Washington, DC, Michael R. Fitzpatrick, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, Janesville, WI, for Defendants.


OPINION and ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

This civil action for monetary and injunctive relief appears for the second time in this court. It is one of a number of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts across the country against pharmaceutical manufacturers. The gravamen of the complaint filed by plaintiff State of Wisconsin is that defendant pharmaceutical companies inflated the average wholesale prices...

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