COM. v. TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC.


885 A.2d 1127 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania by Gerald J. PAPPERT, in his capacity as Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Plaintiff v. TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC.; Abbott Laboratories; Takeda Chemical Industries, LTD.; AstraZeneca PLC; Zeneca, Inc.; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; AstraZeneca LP; Bayer AG; Bayer Corporation; GlaxoSmithKline, P.L.C.; SmithKline Beecham Corporation; Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.; Pfizer, Inc.; Pharmacia Corporation; Johnson & Johnson; Amgen, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Baxter International Inc.; Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation; Schering-Plough Corporation; Dey, Inc., Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 3, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Haviland, Jr., Philadelphia, for plaintiff.

John C. Dodds, Philadelphia, for defendants.

BEFORE: COLINS, President Judge, and McGINLEY, Judge, SMITH-RIBNER, Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, LEADBETTER, Judge, COHN JUBELIRER, Judge, and LEAVITT, Judge.


OPINION BY President Judge COLINS.

The Plaintiff, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through its Attorney General, has a filed a Corrected Amended Complaint1 on behalf of the Commonwealth, and in its asserted status of parens patriae, on behalf of citizens of Pennsylvania, who, according to the Amended Complaint, the Defendants have injured through allegedly improper conduct that has caused entities of the Commonwealth and some of its citizens...

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