IN RE ASACOL ANTITRUST LITIGATION

No. 18-1065.

907 F.3d 42 (2018)

IN RE: ASACOL ANTITRUST LITIGATION. United Food & Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Midwest Health Benefits Fund, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; Mark Adorney, Plaintiffs, Teamsters Union 25 Health Services & Insurance Plan, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; NECA-IBEW Welfare Trust Fund, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; Wisconsin Masons' Health Care Fund, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; Minnesota Laborers Health and Welfare Fund, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated; AFSCME Health and Welfare Fund; Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund; Ahold U.S.A., Inc.; Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc.; Value Drug Company; Meijer, Inc.; Meijer Distribution, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Warner Chilcott Limited; Allergan, Inc., f/k/a Actavis, PLC; Allergan USA, Inc.; Allergan Sales, LLC; Allergan, PLC, Formerly known as Actavis, PLC, Defendants, Appellants, Zydus Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.; Cadila Healthcare Limited; Warner Chilcott (US), LLC; Warner Chilcott Sales (US), LLC; Warner Chilcott Company, LLC, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Mark Gidley , with whom Peter J. Carney , Dana Foster , Matthew S. Leddicotte , Jaclyn Phillips , Washington, DC, Maxwell J. Hyman , Robert A. Milne , Jack E. Pace III , Bryan D. Gant , Kelly Newman , and White & Case LLP New York, NY, were on brief, for appellants.

Richard A. Samp and Marc B. Robertson on brief for Washington Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.

Justin N. Boley , with whom Kenneth A. Wexler , Tyler J. Story , Wexler Wallace LLP, Chicago, IL, Tyler W. Hudson , Eric D. Barton , David Barclay , Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Nathaniel L. Orenstein , Boston, MA, Todd A. Seaver , San Francisco, CA, Berman Tabacco, Daniel E. Gustafson , Karla M. Gluek , Michelle J. Looby , Minneapolis, MN, Joshua J. Rissman , Gustafson Gluek PLLC, Jeffrey L. Kodroff , William G. Caldes , John A. Macoretta , Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Peter J. Mougey , Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty & Proctor, P.A., Pensacola, FL, Jonathan D. Karmel , and Karmel Law Firm, Chicago, IL, were on brief, for appellees.

Before Lynch, Kayatta, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


Drug manufacturer Warner Chilcott Limited pulled one of its products — Asacol — from the market just months before the drug's patent protection expired. Warner simultaneously introduced a similar but not exactly identical substitute drug called Delzicol, the patent protection for which ran years longer. This...

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