PENNSYLVANIA v. TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS

No. Civ.A. 2:05-CV-03604.

415 F.Supp.2d 516 (2005)

Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA v. TAP PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC., et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

September 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Donohue, III, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, Shanin Specter, Kline & Specter, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Stacey I. Gregory, Pepper Hamilton LLP, James J. Rodgers, Dilworth Paxson L.L.P., David W. Engstrom, Harkins Cunningham, Lisa A. Mathewson, Welsh & Recker, P.C., Brennan J. Torregrossa, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Joseph R. Heffern, Dechert, LLP, Erica Smith-Klocek, John C. Dodds, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Frank R. Emmerich, Jr., Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn, PC, Lawrence D. Berger, Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP, David Newmann, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Joseph G. Derespino, Derespino & Dougher PC, Brian T. Feeney, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Alan Klein, Duane Morris LLP, Richard L. Scheff, Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, Beth Lillian Domenick, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, John W. Boyle, John D. Goetz, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Pittsburgh, PA, Jack M. Stover, Jayson R. Wolfgang, Buchanan Ingersoll P.C. Harrisburg, PA, Joseph H. Young, Steven F. Barley, Hogan & Hartson LLP, Baltimore, MD, Maria Colsey Heard, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, for Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., et al.


OPINION

SANCHEZ, District Judge.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is suing thirty-eight pharmaceutical companies, alleging price-setting fraud. The pharmaceutical companies would like to remove the case to federal court. Because I find the lawsuit sounds solely in state law, I will grant the Commonwealth's motion to remand.

In their unified notice of removal, the Defendants assert the Commonwealth's lawsuit arises under federal law because...

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