IN RE NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Nos. 15-2005, 15-2006, 15-2007.

845 F.3d 470 (2017)

IN RE: NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION. American Sales Company, LLC, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; Value Drug Company; Burlington Drug Company Inc.; Rochester Drug Co-operative, Inc., on behalf of itself and others similarly situated; Meijer, Inc.; Meijer Distribution, Inc.; Allied Services Division Welfare Fund; Laborers International Union of North America Local 17 Health Care Fund; Laborers International Union of North America Local 35 Health Care Fund; A.F. of L. — A.G.C. Building Trades Welfare Plan; Fraternal Order of Police Miami Lodge 20 Insurance Trust Fund; New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Assoc. of New York City, Inc. Health Benefits Fund; United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund; Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters Employee Benefits Fund; International Union of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District No. 15 Health Fund; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 595 Health and Welfare Fund; Walgreen Co.; The Kroger Company; Safeway Incorporated; Supervalu, Inc.; HEB Grocery Co. LP; Giant Eagle, Inc.; Rite Aid Corporation; Rite Aid Headquarters Corporation; JCG (PJC) USA, LLC; Maxi Drug, Inc., d/b/a Brooks Pharmacy; Eckerd Corporation; CVS, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. AstraZeneca LP; AstraZeneca AB; Aktiebolaget Hassle; Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Ranbaxy Inc.; Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Entered: January 10, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen DeValerio , Nathaniel L. Orenstein , Berman DeValerio , Thomas G. Shapiro , Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, Kimberly A. Dougherty , Janet Jenner & Suggs LLC, Jonathan Shapiro , Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin LLP, Boston, MA, James R. Dugan, II , David Baylis Franco , Douglas Robert Plymale , Dugan Law Firm LLC, New Orleans, LA, Donna M. Evans, J.   Douglas Richards , Sharon K. Robertson , George Farah , Christopher Lometti , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Bruce E. Gerstein , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP, Donald A. Broggi , Joseph P. Guglielmo , Scott & Scott LLP, New York, NY, Anne K. Fornecker , Steve D. Shadowen , R. Bryce Duke , Robert C. Hilliard , Hilliard Shadowen LLP, Austin, TX, Daniel C. Girard , Christina C. Sharp , Girard Gibbs LLP, San Francisco, CA, Jayne A. Goldstein , Shepherd Finkelman Miller & Shah, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Matthew W.H. Wessler , Gupta Wessler PLLC, Washington, DC, Kenneth A. Wexler , Justin N. Boley , Bethany R. Turke , Edward A. Wallace , Wexler Wallace LLP, Chicago, IL, Natalie Finkelman Bennett , Shepherd Finkelman Miller & Shah LLP, Media, PA, John B. Martinez , Hilliard Munoz Gonzales LLP, Corpus Christi, TX, Brian Douglas Penny , Goldman Scarlato & Penny PC, Conshohocken, PA, Kevin Peter Roddy , Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge, NJ, Aaron David Kaufmann , Leonard Carder LLP, Oakland, CA, Nicole M. Acchione , Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, Haddonfield, NJ, Nicole M. Acchione , Lisa J. Rodriguez , Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Cherry Hill, NJ, Christopher M. Burke , Walter W. Noss , Scott & Scott LLP, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard Alan Arnold , Anna Theresa Neill , Douglas H. Patton , Scott E. Perwin , Kenny Nachwalter PA, Miami, FL, Bruce E. Gerstein , Joseph Opper , Elena K. Chan , Ephraim R. Gerstein , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP, John D. Radice , Peter A. Barile, III , Bradley J. Demuth , Grant & Eisenhofer PA, Brian D. Brooks , Smith Segura & Raphael LLP, Linda P. Nussbaum , Nussbaum Law Group PC, Archana Tamoshunas , Taus, Cebulash & Landau, LLP, Virginia E. Anello , Douglas & London, P.C., Michael Aaron Rose , Frank R. Schirripa , Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie LLP, New York, NY, Lauren C. Ravkind , Kenny Nachwalter PA, Austin, TX, Barry L. Refsin , Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Caitlin G. Coslett , Eric Cramer , Ellen T. Noteware , Daniel C. Simons , David F. Sorensen , Yechiel Michael Twersky , Nicholas Urban, Berger & Montague PC, David A. Schumacher , Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Philadelphia, PA, Moira E. Cain-Mannix , Erin Gibson Allen , Brian C. Hill , Scott D. Livingston , Bernard D. Marcus , Jonathan D. Marcus , James F. Rosenberg , Marcus & Shapira LLP, Maureen S. Lawrence , Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Pittsburgh, PA, Eric L. Bloom , Monica L. Rebuck , Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Harrisburg, PA, Don Barrett , Barrett Law Group PA, Lexington, MS, Alyssa K. Chaplin , Kristen Johnson , David S. Nalven , Thomas M. Sobol , Andrew J. Vasicek , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Cambridge, MA, Russell A. Chorush , Heim Payne & Chorush LLP, Houston, TX, Peter S. Pearlman , Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf, Saddle Brook, NJ, Susan C. Segura , Smith Segura & Raphael LLP, Alexandria, LA, John P. Bjork , David P. Germaine , Vaneck Vickers & Masini PC, Chicago, IL, James E. Cecchi , Lindsey H. Taylor , Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan etc., Roseland, NJ, Peter R. Kohn , Joseph T. Lukens , Farqui & Farqui LLP, Jenkintown, PA, Barbara J. Hart , Uriel Rabinovitz , Peter Dexter St. Phillip, Jr. , Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart PC, White Plains, NY, Gerald Lawrence , Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, PC, West Conshocken, PA, for Plaintiffs.

Nicholas W. Allen , William A. Zucker , McCarter & English LLP, Laurence Adam Schoen , Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC, Boston, MA, James Douglas Baldridge , Lisa Jose Fales , Danielle R. Foley , Vincent E. Verrocchio , Venable LLP, Ashley E. Bass , Courtney R. Forrest , Jonathan Gimblett , Timothy C. Hester , Thomas A. Isaacson , Andrew D. Lazerow , Enrique D. Longton , Evie Spanos , Einar Stole , Covington & Burling LLP, Dane Butswinkas , Stanley E. Fisher , Paul B. Gaffney , Benjamin M. Greenblum , Heidi K. Hubbard , John E. Joiner , William Thomas Marks , Jonathan B. Pitt , Adam Joshua Podoll , John E. Schmidtlein , Kannon K. Shanmugam , Adam R. Tarosky , James Harris Weingarten , Marcie R. Ziegler , Williams & Connolly LLP, Jonathan D. Janow , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, Michael P. Kelly , McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE, Amanda Elbogen , Jay P. Lefkowitz , Steven J. Menashi , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, Leslie F. Su , Gordon Law Firm LLP, Wellesley, MA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Jonathan B. Berman , John M. Gore , Kevin D. McDonald , Stephanie L. Resnik , Jones Day, Andrew D. Lazerow , Covington & Burling LLP, James Douglas Baldridge , Venable LLP, Thea Cohen , Christopher M. Jackson , Jonathan D. Janow , Katherine R. Katz , Karen Natalie Walker , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, Ajay Kayal , Ellen T. Lowenthal , Andrew J. Miller , Alan H. Pollack , Budd Lanier, PC, Short Hills, NJ, Michael T. Marcucci , Jones Day, Laurence Adam Schoen , Adam L. Sisitsky , Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC, Boston, MA, Jay P. Lefkowitz , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, Kevin T. Van Wart , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

Bradley S. Albert , Daniel W. Butrymowicz , Deborah Feinstein , Mark S. Hegedus , Elizabeth R. Hilder , Joel R. Marcus , Markus H. Meier , Jonathan E. Nuechterlein , US Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.

Lawrence M. Kraus , Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston, MA, Nicholas S. Napolitan , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, Christopher Wirth , Christopher Donnelly , Jonathan Rich , SCI Benner, Bellefonte, PA, James Jared Thule , Toms River, NJ, Terry Lynn Nicholas , USP Florence, Florence, CO, Edward Breivik , Lawrence, NJ, Robert J. Tucker , Baker & Hostetler, Columbus, OH, Michael J. Rossi , Conn Kavanaugh Rosenthal Peisch & Ford LLP, Boston, MA, Timothy C. Hester , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Interested Parties.

Before Lynch, Stahl and Thompson, Circuit Judges.


ORDER OF COURT

The various groups of plaintiffs have collectively filed three petitions for panel rehearing and two for rehearing en banc, raising various objections to the panel opinion. This order deals primarily with the petitions for panel rehearing. None of them has merit.

End-Payor Class's Petition

The End-Payor Class, seeking only panel rehearing, argues that we must remand the case with regard to the permanent injunction issue...

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