IN RE PHARM. INDUSTRY AVG. WHOLESALE PRICE LIT.

MDL No. 1456, Civil Action No. 03-11226-PBS, Master File No. 01-12257-PBS.

478 F.Supp.2d 164 (2007)

In re PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION. This document relates to: State of California, ex rel. Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie B. Brennan, Manchel & Brennan, P.C., Newton, MA, for United Healthcare, Inc. & United HealthCare Insurance Company.

Charles Barnhill, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Madison, WI, for Commonwealth of Kentucky, and State of Illinois.

Steven E. Bizar, Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Amerisource-Bergen Corporation.

Jeffrey B. Aaronson, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Anthony J. Anscombe, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, Violeta I. Balan, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Melanie Matison Brown, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold, Chicago, IL, Marc E. Ackerman, Harris Beach LLP, Kevin N. Ainsworth, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Melissa Aoyagi, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Jennifer Aurora, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, Edwin Baum, Proskauer, Rose Law Firm, Sheila L. Birnbaum, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Elise M. Bloom, Proskauer, Rose Law Firm, William P. Campos, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, William F. Cavanaugh, Jr., Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY, Joseph G. Adams, Snell & Wilmer LLP, Neil Alden, Bowman and Brooke LLP, Martin A. Aronson, Morrill & Aronson, Curtis Bergen, Bowman and Brooke LLP, Donald Wayne Bivens, Meyer Hendricks & Bivens PA, Phoenix, AZ, Pamela Zorn Adams, Sherin and Lodgen LLP, Christopher K. Barry-Smith, Office of the Attorney General, Jessica Vincent Barnett, Foley Hoag LLP, Brandon L. Bigelow, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Scott A. Birnbaum, Birnbaum & Godkin, LLP, Robert P. Blood, Goodwin Procter LLP, Michael P Boudett, Foley Hoag LLP, Douglas S. Brooks, Kelly, Libby & Hoopes, PC, Brett R. Budzinski, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, Kenneth W. Africano, Harter, Secrest Law firm, Mitchell J. Banas, Jr., Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP, Elizabeth M Bergen, Gibson, McAskill Law Firm, Ann M. Campbell, Brown & Tarantino, Marco Cercone, Rupp, Baase, Pfalzgraf & Cunningham, Buffalo, NY, Justin S. Antonipillai, Arnold & Porter, Pamela J. Auerbach, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, N.W. Washington, DC, Scott A. Barbour, McName, Lochner, Titus & Williams, Albany, NY, Steven F. Barley, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, Baltimore, MD, S. Paul Battaglia, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, Syracuse, NY, Jon Steven Baughman, Ropes & Gray LLP, Stacy D. Belf, Ropes & Gray LLP, Jason Bruno, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, JonMarc P. Buffa, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Michelle L. Butler, Hyman Phelps & McNamara PC, Thomas C. Chabanis, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Washington, DC, P. Ryan Beckett, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Neville H. Boschert, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, P.A., Felix Lee Bowie, III, Davidson, Bowie & Sims, PLLC, Roy D. Campbell, III, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Jackson, MS, Lawrence D. Berger, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Mark A. Berman, Hartmann Doherty Rosa & Berman, LLC, Hackensack, NJ, Sam B. Blair, Jr., Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, P.C., Memphis, TN, Lynn M. Blake, Freidman, Hirschen Law Firm, Albany, NY, Jack B. Blumenfeld, Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE, George Ian Brandon, Sr., Squire Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Phoenix, AR, Raymond L. Brown, Brown, Buchanan & Sessoms, PA, Pascagoula, MS, Daniel Jerome Buckley, Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease, James Eugene Burke, Keating Muething & Klekamp, Cincinnati, OH, Richard O. Burson, Ferris, Burson & Entrekin, PLLC, Laurel, MS, Kathleen T. Carter, Ward, Norris, Heller & Reidy, Rochester, NY, Tod S. Cashin, Buchanan Ingersoll, PC, Princeton, NJ, Brent Caslin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants/Consolidated Defendants.

C. Jarrett Anderson, Austin, TX, Gary L. Azorsky, Berger & Montague, PC, Terrianne Benedetto, Susan Aaronson, Kline & Specter, P.C., Anthony Bolognese, Bolognese & Associates, Philadelphia, PA, Rebecca Bedwell-Coll, Mascone, Emblidge & Quadra, San Francisco, CA, Steve W. Berman, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Jeniphr Breckenridge, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP, Seattle, WA, David J. Bershad, Milberg Weiss Bershad, Hynes & Lerach LLP, Michael M. Buchman, Milbert, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, Chris Chapman, Weitz & Luxenberg, James P. Carroll, Jr., Kirby McInerney & Squire, New York, NY, Ali Bovingdon, Helena, MT, James J. Breen, The Breen Law Firm, P.A., Alpharetta, GA, Thomas W. Breidenstein, Barrett & Weber, Stanley M. Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., LPA, Stanley Morris Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, OH, Charlie Bridgmon, McCutchen, Balnton, Rhodes & Johnson, Susan F Campbell, McCutchen Blanton Johnson and Barnette, Columbia, SC, John Anthony Bruegger, Simmons Cooper, Alton, IL, Nicole Y. Brumsted, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Boston, MA, William F. Burns, Glassman Edwards Wade & Wyatt, PC, Memphis, TN, Robert B. Carey, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro PLLC, Phoenix, AR, Clinton C. Carter, Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis & Miles PC, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs/Consolidated Plaintiffs.

Susan Hughes Banning, Hemenway & Barnes, Boston, MA, for Movant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves a qui tam action brought by relator-plaintiff Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, Inc., a pharmacy licensed to dispense prescriptions drugs and pharmaceutical products, on behalf of the State of California against thirty-nine defendant pharmaceutical companies,1 alleging that these defendants violated the California False...

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