IN RE LAMICTAL DIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST

No. 19-1655.

957 F.3d 184 (2020)

IN RE: LAMICTAL DIRECT PURCHASER ANTITRUST LITIGATION. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC d/b/a SmithKline Beecham Corporation; Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.; Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion filed: April 22, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Boland , Lindsay D. Breedlove , Robin P. Sumner , Pepper Hamilton LLP, 3000 Two Logan Square, 18th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Joseph A. Fischetti , Gavin J. Rooney , Lowenstein Sandler LLP, One Lowenstein Drive, Roseland, NJ 07068, Counsel for Appellant GlaxoSmithKline LLC.

Devora W. Allon (Argued), Jay P. Lefkowitz , Dmitriy Tishyevich , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 601 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022, Katherine M. Romano , Liza M. Walsh , WalshPizzi O'Reilly Falanga LLP, One Riverfront Plaza, 1037 Raymond Boulevard, 6th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102, Counsel for Appellants Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Elena K. Chan , Bruce E. Gerstein , Joseph Opper , Noah Silverman , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP, Wall Street Plaza 88, Pine Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10036, Caitlin G. Coslett (Argued), David F. Sorensen , Berger Montague , 1818 Market Street, Suite 3600, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Matthew F. Gately , Peter S. Pearlman , Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP, Park 80 West, Plaza One, 250 Pehle Avenue, Suite 401, Saddle Brook, NJ 07663, Peter R. Kohn , Joseph T. Lukens , Faruqi & Faruqi LLP, 1617 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1550, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Stuart E. Des Roches , Chris Letter , Dan Chiorean , Odom & Des Roches LLC, 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2020, New Orleans, LA 70130, Susan C. Segura , David C. Raphael, Jr. , Erin R. Leger , Smith Segura Raphael & Leger LLP, 3600 Jackson Street, Suite 111, Alexandria, LA 71303, Russell Chorush , Allan Bullwinkel , Heim Payne & Chorush LLP, 111 Bagby Street, Suite 2100, Houston, TX 77002, Counsel for Appellees.

Brian T. Burges , Goodwin Procter, 1900 N Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, Christopher T. Holding , Goodwin Procter, 100 North Avenue Boston, MA 02210, Counsel for Amicus Appellant Association for Accessible Medicines.

Before: AMBRO, KRAUSE, and PHIPPS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

This case is the latest in the years-long antitrust battle over whether GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK") and Teva Pharmaceuticals ("Teva") violated the antitrust laws through their settlement agreement to end an unrelated patent dispute over GSK's brand drug Lamictal and Teva's generic form lamotrigine...

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