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STATE v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

No. 2010AP232-AC.

816 N.W.2d 145 (2012)

2012 WI 62

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent-Cross-Appellant, v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES, AstraZeneca LP, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Aventis Behring, LLC f/k/a ZLB Behring, LLC, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Ben Venue Laboratories, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Dey, Inc., Ivax Corporation, Ivax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Janssen LP f/k/a Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, LP, Johnson & Johnson, Inc., McNeil-PPC, Inc., Merck & Co. f/k/a Schering-Plough Corporation, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. f/k/a Merck & Company, Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Mylan, Inc. f/k/a Mylan Laboratories, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., Ortho Biotech Products, LP, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., Pfizer Inc., Roxane Laboratories, Inc., Sandoz, Inc. f/k/a Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Sicor, Inc. f/k/a Gensia Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., SmithKline Beecham Corp. d/b/a GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Watson Pharma, Inc. f/k/a Schein Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Defendants, Pharmacia Corporation, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 22, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant-cross-respondent, there were briefs filed by O. Thomas Armstrong , Beth J. Kushner , Douglas M. Raines , and von Briesen & Roper S.C., Milwaukee, John C. Dodds , Erica Smith-Klocek , Máire E. Donovan , and Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, and John Clayton Everett, Jr. and Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, LLP, Washington D.C., and oral argument by John C. Dodds.

For the plaintiff-respondent-cross-appellant, there were briefs filed by Frank D. Remington , assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general, and George F. Galland, Jr. , Charles Barnhill, Jr. , Betty Eberle , Barry J. Blonien , and Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C., Madison, and oral argument by George F. Galland.

An amicus brief was filed by Donald K. Schott , Elyce Wos , Matthew J. Splitek , and Quarles & Brady, LLP, Madison; William F. Cavanaugh , Adeel A. Mangi , and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP, of counsel, New York; and Andrew D. Schau and Covington & Burling, LLP, of counsel, New York, for the Non-Pharmacia Brand Defendants.

An amicus brief was filed by Robert H. Friebert , Shannon A. Allen , and Friebert, Finerty, & St. John, S.C., Milwaukee; and Joseph Angland , Michael J. Gallagher , Heather K. McDevitt , and White & Case, LLP, New York, for the Non-Pharmacia Generic Defendants.

MICHAEL J. GABLEMAN, J.

¶ 1 This case comes before us on certification from the court of appeals. The State brought a civil action against Pharmacia Corporation ("Pharmacia"), alleging that the company reported inflated drug prices to Wisconsin Medicaid. A jury found Pharmacia liable for violating Wisconsin Statutes sections 100.18(1) (1992)1 — the Deceptive Trade Practices Act ...

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