COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA v. ASTRA USA, INC.

No. 06-16471.

588 F.3d 1237 (2009)

COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ASTRA USA, INC.; AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bayer Corporation; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Pfizer, Inc.; Schering-Plough Corporation Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.; Zenecca Inc.; ZLB Behring LLC; SmithKline Beecham Corporation; SmithKline Beecham Corporation, dba GlaxoSmithKline; Wyeth, Inc.; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Coughlin, Sanford Svetcov (argued), Jeffrey W. Lawrence, Jacqueline E. Mottek, Aelish M. Baig and Jennie Lee Anderson, Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP; Tamara Lange, Lead Deputy County Counsel, Ann Miller Ravel and Cheryl A. Stevens, Santa Clara County Counsel's Office; Steve W. Berman and Douglas C. McDermott, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for plaintiff-appellant County of Santa Clara.

Robert S. Litt (argued), Jeffrey L. Handwerker and Sharon Douglass Mayo, Arnold & Porter LLP for defendants-appellees Astra USA, Inc., AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP and Zeneca Inc.; Alicia J. Donahue and Sara Romano, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP for defendants-appellees Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and ZLB Behring LLC; Timothy T. Scott, Geoffrey M. Ezgar and Paul Yanosy, Sidley Austin LLP for defendant-appellee Bayer Corporation; Paul J. Riehle and Matthew A. Fischer, Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP for defendant-appellee Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Federick G. Herold, Valerie M. Wagner and Philip Barilovits, Dechert LLP for defendant-appellee SmithKline Beecham Corporation; Molly M. Lane and Tera Heinz, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP for defendant-appellee Pfizer Inc.; Kirke M. Hasson and Colin T. Kemp, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP for defendant-appellee Schering-Plough Corporation; Peter N. Larson, Jones Day for defendant-appellee TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.; Fletcher Alford, Gordon & Rees, LLP for defendants-appellees Wyeth, Inc. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Benjamin M. Shultz, United States Department of Justice, for the United States as amicus curiae.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, BARRY G. SILVERMAN and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.


ORDER AND OPINION**

ORDER

The mandate issued September 18, 2008, is hereby recalled.

The opinion filed August 27, 2008, see County of Santa Clara v. Astra USA, Inc., 540 F.3d 1094 (9th Cir.2008), is withdrawn. A superseding opinion will be filed concurrently with this order. Petitions for rehearing or petitions for rehearing en banc may be filed.

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