IN RE NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION

Civil Action No. 12-md-02409-WGY.

968 F.Supp.2d 367 (2013)

In re NEXIUM (ESOMEPRAZOLE) ANTITRUST LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

September 11, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicole M. Acchione , Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLP, Haddonfield, NJ, Penelope Abdiel , Donald A. Broggi , Joseph P. Guglielmo , Scott & Scott LLP, New York, NY, Walter W. Noss , Scott + Scott LLP, San Diego, CA, Virginia E. Anello , Michael A. London , Douglas & London, P.C., New York, NY, Peter A. Barile, III , Linda P. Nussbaum , Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY, Natalie Finkelman Bennett , Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLP, Media, PA, John P. Bjork , David P. Germaine , Vanek Vickers & Masini PC, Chicago, IL, James E. Cecchi , Carella Byrne Cecchi Olstein Brody & Agnello, P.C., Roseland, NJ, Russell A. Chorush , Heim Payne & Chorush LLP, Houston, TX, Caitlin G. Coslett , Daniel C. Simons , David F. Sorensen , Nicholas Urban , Berger & Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA, Joseph Opper , Garwin, Bronzaft, Gerstein & Fisher, New York, NY, Don Barrett , Barrett Law Office, Lexington, MS, Justin N. Boley , Dawn M. Goulet , Bethany R. Turke , Edward A. Wallace , Kenneth A. Wexler , Wexler Wallace LLP, Chicago, IL, Brian D. Brooks , Smith Segura & Raphael LLP, New York, NY, Christopher M. Burke , Scott & Scott LLP, San Diego, CA, Moira E. Cain-Mannix , Brian C. Hill , Bernard D. Marcus , Jonathan D. Marcus , Marcus & Shapira, Pittsburgh, PA, Elena Chan , Bruce E. Gerstein , Ephraim R. Gerstein , Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP, New York, NY, Eric L. Cramer , Berger & Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA, Glen DeValerio , Berman DeValerio , Boston, MA, Kimberly A. Dougherty , Janet Jenner & Suggs, LLC, Boston, MA, James R. Dugan, II , David B. Franco , Douglas R. Plymale , The Dugan Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Donna M. Evans , David S. Nalven , Kristen Johnson Parker , Thomas M. Sobol , Andrew J. Vasicek , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Cambridge, MA, George Farah, J.   Douglas Richards , Sharon K. Robertson , Cohen Milstein , New York, NY, Anne K. Fornecker , Hilliard & Shadowen LLC, Austin, TX, Steve D. Shadowen , Hilliard & Shadowen LLC, Mechanicsburg, PA, Daniel C. Girard , Christina C. Sharp , Girard Gibbs & DeBartolomeo LLP, San Francisco, CA, Jayne A. Goldstein , Pomerantz Grossman Hufford Dahlstrom & Gross, LLP, Weston, FL, Peter Kohn , Joseph T. Lukens , Faruqi & Faruqi LLP, Jenkintown, PA, Christopher Lometti , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, Anna T. Neill , Douglas H. Patton , Scott E. Perwin , Kenny Nachwalter, P.A., Miami, FL, Peter S. Pearlman , Cohn, Lifland, Pearlman, Herrmann & Knopf, Saddle Brook, NJ, Brian D. Penny , Goldman Scarlato Karon & Penny PC, Wayne, PA, John D. Radice , Radice Law Firm, PC, Long Beach, NJ, Kevin P. Roddy , Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer PA, Woodbridge, NJ, Lisa J. Rodriguez , Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Haddonfield, NJ, Michael Aaron Rose , Frank R. Schirripa , Hach & Rose, New York, NY, Susan C. Segura , Smith Segura & Raphael, LLP, Alexandria, LA, Jonathan Shapiro , Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin, Boston, MA, Thomas G. Shapiro , Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP, Boston, MA, Archana Tamoshunas , Taus, Cebulash & Landau, LLP, New York, NY, Lindsey H. Taylor , Carella, Byrne, Cecchi, Olstein, Brody & Agnello, Roseland, NJ, for Plaintiffs.

Christopher K. Albert , Brian T. Moriarty , Hamilton Brook Smith & Reynolds, P.C., Concord, MA, Nicholas W. Allen , William A. Zucker , McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA, Michael P. Kelly , McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE, James Douglas Baldridge , Sarah Choi , Lisa Jose Fales , Danielle R. Foley , Venable LLP, Washington, DC, Ashley E. Bass , Jonathan Gimblett , Timothy C. Hester , Thomas A. Isaacson , Andrew D. Lazerow , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Jonathan B. Berman , Kevin D. McDonald , Stephanie L. Resnik , Jones Day, Washington, DC, Dane H. Butswinkas , Paul B. Gaffney , John E. Schmidtlein , Adam R. Tarosky , James H. Weingarten , Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, Thea Cohen , Katie Einspanier , Christopher M. Jackson , Rebecca A. Koch , Karen N. Walker , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, Jay P. Lefkowitz , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, Aaron D. Kaufmann , Leonard Carder LLP, Oakland, CA, Ellen T. Lowenthal , Andrew J. Miller , Budd Larner PC, Short Hills, NJ, Laurence A. Schoen , Adam L. Sisitsky , Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC, Boston, MA, Leslie F. Su , Minerva Law, P.C., Andover, MA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

A group of wholesale drug distributors (the "Direct Purchasers") and health and welfare benefit funds (the "End-Payors"1) (collectively, the "Plaintiffs"), on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, brings this multidistrict, putative class action against AstraZeneca AB, Aktiebolaget Hassle, and AstraZeneca LP (collectively, "AstraZeneca...

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