COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff,
v.
ASTRA UNITED STATES, INC.; Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer Corp.; Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.; Pfizer, Inc.; Schering-Plough Corp.; SmithKline Beecham Corp., d/b/a Glaxosmithkline; Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.; Wyeth, Inc.; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Zeneca, Inc.; ZLB Behring LLC; Cardinal Health, Inc.; Healthcare Purchasing Partners International, LLC; McKesson Corp.; Amerisourcebergen Corp., and Does 1 through 100, inclusive, Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 14, 2006.
February 14, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jacqueline E. Mottek, Jeffrey W. Lawrence, Aelish M. Baig, Jennie Lee Anderson, Patrick J. Coughlin, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, San Francisco, CA, Ann Miller Ravel, Office Of The County Counsel, Cheryl A. Stevens, San Jose, CA, Douglas C. McDermott, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiff.
Sharon Douglass Mayo, Arnold & Porter LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Jeffrey Lawrence Handwerker, Robert S. Litt, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC, Lyndon M. Tretter, Steven M. Edwards, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., New York City, Paul Jeffrey Riehle, Esq., Matthew A. Fischer, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP, Alicia J. Donahue, Sara J. Romano, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, Geoffrey M. Ezga, Timothy T. Scott, Paul Lionel Yanosy, Jr., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Molly Moriarty Lane, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Colin T. Kemp, Kirke M. Hasson, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Peter Nels Larson, Jones Day, Michael Francis McCabe, Reed Smith, Rosalie Euna Kim, Steven H. Frankel, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Peter K. Huston, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, Jaime L.M. Jones, Richard Raskin, Sidley Austin LLP, Margo Weinstein, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, IL, Brian W. Shaffer, Jennifer B. Jordan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Justin J. Wolosz, Brien T. O'Connor, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, Frederick George Herold, Valerie M. Wagner, Dechert LLP, Halimah Dorelle Delaine, Palo Alto, CA, James M. Wood, Reed Smith LLP, Oakland, CA, for Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. California.
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS
ALSUP, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
In this putative class action, a county government seeks to recover alleged overcharges for medicines sold by pharmaceutical companies to public hospitals in California. The action is brought under Section 17204 of California's Unfair Competition Law ("UCL") and under California's False Claims Act ("CFCA"), among other theories. Having successfully removed the action from state...
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