WISCONSIN v. AMGEN, INC.

No. 06-C-582-C.

469 F.Supp.2d 655 (2007)

State of WISCONSIN, Plaintiff, v. AMGEN, INC., Abbott Laboratories, Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, Astrazeneca, LP, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aventis Behring, LLC, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Dey, Inc., Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Glaxosmithkline, Inc., Immunex Corporation, Ivax Corporation, Ivax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Janssen Pharmaceutical Products, LP, Johnson & Johnson, Inc., McNeil-PPC, Inc., Merck & Company, Inc., Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Ortho Biotech Products, LP, OrthoMcNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Pharmacia, Pfizer, Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., Sandoz, Inc., Schein Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Schering-Plough Corporation, Sicor, Inc., Smithkline Beecham Corporation, Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals Usa, Inc., Warrick Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Watson Pharma, Inc., Zlb Behring, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

January 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Barnhill, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Madison, WI, Peggy A. Lautenschlager, Attorney General, Wisconsin Deparment of Justice, Madison, WI, for Plaintiffs.

William M. Conley, Foley & Lardner, Madison, WI, Joseph H. Young, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Amgen Inc.

Lynn M. Stathas, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, S.C., Madison, WI, Allen C. Schlinsog, Jr., Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Milwaukee, WI, James R. Daly, Attorney at Law, Chicago, IL, for Abbott Laboratories and Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.

Brian E. Butler, Stafford Rosenbaum, LLP, Madison, WI, D. Scott Wise, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP, Astrazeneca, LP.

Stephen P. Hurley, Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C., Madison, WI, Michael L. Koon, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Bruce A. Schultz, Coyne Schultz Becker & Bauer, Madison, WI, Merle M. Delancey, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morion & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for Baxter Healthcare Corporation.

Patrick J. Knight, Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, Milwaukee, WI, Helen E. Witt, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc.

James R. Clark, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, Steven M. Edwards, Hogan & Hartson LLP, New York City, for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

John W. Markson, Bell, Gierhart & Moore, Madison, WI, Christopher Palermo, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York City, for Dey, Inc.

Michael R. Fitzpatrick, Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, Janesville, WI, David J. Burman, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, for Immunex Corporation.

Steven P. Means, Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP, Madison, WI, Philip F. Ackerman, Sonneneschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP, Chicago, IL, Jonmarc P. Buffa, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC, for Ivax Corporation, Ivax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Titusville, NJ, Pro se.

Donald K. Schott, Quarles & Brady, Madison, WI, William Cavanaugh, Jr., Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, New York City, for Johnson & Johnson, Inc.

McNeil-PPC, Inc., Fort Washington, PA, Pro se.

Michael P. Crooks, Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., Madison, WI, John M. Townsend, Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Washington, DC, for Merck & Company, Inc.

David J. Harth, Heller Ehrman LLP, Madison, WI, William A. Escobar, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York City, for Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Kim Grimmer Solheim, Billing & Grimmer, S.C., Madison, WI, Jane W. Parver, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York City, for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Ortho Biotech Products, LP, Raritan, NJ, Pro se.

Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Raritan, NJ, Pro se.

Beth J. Kushner, Von Briesen & Roper, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, John C. Dodds Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Pfizer, Inc., Pharmacia.

Wayne A. Cross, White & Case LLP, New York City, Shannon Allen, Friebart, Finerty & St. John, Milwaukee, WI, for Sandoz, Inc.

Earl H. Munson Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, Madison, WI, Brien T. O'Connor, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA, Patryk J. Drescher, Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, DC, for Schering-Plough Corporation, Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Lester A. Pines, Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach, Madison, WI, T. Reed Stephens, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC, Frederick G. Herold, Dechert LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Mark D. Seltzer, Holland & Knight LLP, Boston, MA, for Sicor, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

Daniel W. Hildebrand, Dewitt, Ross & Stevens, Madison, WI, Mark H. Lynch, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Smithkline Beecham Corporation.

Douglas B. Farquhar Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, Washington, DC, Ralph Weber, Gass Weber Mullins, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, for Watson Pharma, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Clifford Joe Cavitt, Hurley, Burish & Stanton, S.C., Madison, WI, for Aventis Behring, LLC, ZLB Behring.


OPINION and ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

In this civil lawsuit, the. State of Wisconsin contends that defendant pharmaceutical companies have violated numerous state laws and have unjustly enriched themselves by inflating the average wholesale prices of their drugs. Originally filed in June 2004 in the Circuit Court for Dane County, Wisconsin, the case is now before this court on plaintiff's motion to remand following defendant Dey, Inc.'s third attempt...

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