IN RE: NIASPAN ANTITRUST LITIGATION.
A.G.C. Building Trades Welfare Plan; City of Providence, Rhode Island; Electrical Workers 242 and 294 Health & Welfare Fund; International Union of Operating Engineers Local 49 Health and Welfare Fund; International Union of Operating Engineers Local 132 Health and Welfare Fund; New England Electrical Workers Benefits Fund; Painters District Council No. 30 Health & Welfare Fund; United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1776 & Participating Employers Health and Welfare Fund; Miles Wallis; Carol Prasse, Appellants
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Elaine J. Goldenberg [ARGUED], Sarah Weiner , Munger Tolles & Olson, 601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW — Ste. 500e, Washington, DC 20001, Paul H. Saint-Antoine , John S. Yi , Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, One Logan Square — Ste. 2000, Philadelphia, PA 19103, Stuart N. Senator , Jeffrey Y. Wu , Munger Tolles & Olson, 350 S. Grand Avenue — 50th Fl., Los Angeles, CA 90071, Counsel for Appellees Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Respiratory LLC and Abbvie Inc.
Devora W. Allon , Kirkland & Ellis, 601 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022, Alexandra I. Russell , Kirkland & Ellis, 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004, Counsel for Appellees Barr Pharmaceuticals LLC, Duramed Pharmaceuticals Sales Corp., Teva, Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Teva Women's Health, Inc. f/k/a Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Matthew J. Perez , DiCello Levitt, 485 Lexington Avenue — 10th Fl., New York, NY 10017, Gary I. Smith, Jr. , Hausfield, 325 Chestnut Street — Ste. 900, Philadelphia, PA 19106, Counsel for Amicus Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws.
Cory L. Andrews , John M. Masslon, II , Washington Legal Foundation, 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, Counsel for Amicus Washington Legal Foundation.
Randy Stutz , 10418 Ewell Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895, Counsel for Amicus American Antitrust Institute.
Adam G. Unikowsky , Jenner & Block, 1099 New York Avenue, NS — Ste. 900, Washington DC 20001, Counsel for Amicus Chamber of Commerce of The United States of America.
Before: JORDAN, HARDIMAN and MATEY, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
The Appellants, a group consisting primarily of union health and welfare insurance plans, claim that Abbvie, Inc., the manufacturer of the drug Niaspan, paid off a potential manufacturer of a generic version of the drug to delay the generic's launch. This putative class action was brought to...
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