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IN RE CIPRO CASES I & II

No. D056361.

200 Cal.App.4th 442 (2011)

IN RE CIPRO CASES I & II. [Nine coordinated cases.]

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

October 31, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Joseph R. Saveri , Eric B. Fastiff , Brendan Glackin , Jordan Elias , Dean M. Harvey ; Krause, Kalfayan, Benink & Slavens, Ralph B. Kalfayan ; Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling and Dan Drachler for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Mark A. Lemley for 78 Law, Economics, Business and Public Policy Professors as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, Charles A. Bird , Christopher J. Healey , Todd R. Kinnear ; Jones Day, Kevin D. McDonald ; Bartlit Beck Herman Palencher & Schott and Peter B. Bensinger, Jr. , for Defendant and Respondent Bayer Corporation.

Edleson & Rezzo, Joann F. Rezzo ; Kathryn E. Karcher ; Stinson, Morrison, Hecker, David E. Everson , Heather S. Woodson and Victoria Smith for Defendants and Respondents Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., The Rugby Group, Inc., and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Edleson & Rezzo, Joann F. Rezzo ; Kathryn E. Karcher ; Kirkland & Ellis, Edwin John U , Karen N. Walker and Gregory Skidmore for Defendant and Respondent Barr Laboratories, Inc.

OPINION

NARES, J.—

The plaintiffs in this coordinated class action proceeding sued brand-name drug manufacturer Bayer AG and its subsidiary Bayer Corporation (collectively Bayer); generic drug manufacturers Barr Laboratories, Inc. (Barr), Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. (HMR), and HMR's former subsidiary The Rugby Group, Inc. (Rugby) (collectively the generic defendants); and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Watson), which purchased Rugby from...

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