IN RE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUS. AVERAGE WHOLESALE

No. 09-1196.

588 F.3d 24 (2009)

IN RE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AVERAGE WHOLESALE PRICE LITIGATION M. Joyce Howe, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Leroy Townsend, Plaintiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 19, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Haviland with whom Michael J. Lorusso and The Haviland Law Firm, LLC were on brief for the appellant.

Steve Berman with whom Sean R. Matt, Thomas M. Sobol, Edward Notargiacomo, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Kenneth R. Wexler, Jennifer Fountain Connolly, Wexler Wallace LLP, Jeffrey Kodroff, John A. Marcoretta, Spector, Roseman, Kodroff & Willis P.C., Marc H. Edelson, and Hoffman & Edelson were on brief for the appellee.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LYNCH, Chief Judge.

One unhappy named plaintiff appeals from an order approving a $24 million class action settlement in one multidistrict litigation, in which class members allege that AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (AstraZeneca) published artificially inflated prescription drug prices. In re Pharm. Indus. Average Wholesale Price Litig., MDL No. 1456, Civ. A. No. 01-12257, 2008 WL 7085766 (D.Mass. Dec. 15, 2008) (order...

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