Anti-Competitive, Direct Purchasers

Ninth Circuit Limits Ability of Indirect Purchaser Classes to Bring Nationwide Suits

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/13/2021

The Ninth Circuit has held that a putative class of nationwide consumers that brought damages claims under California law was erroneously certified. Until now, class actions asserting claims for plaintiffs across the country...more

Third Circuit Provides Manufacturers With Roadmap to Avoid Class Antitrust Claims Brought by Direct Purchasers

Troutman Pepper on 9/19/2019

The Third Circuit recently held in In re Remicade (Direct Purchaser) Antitrust Litigation that a direct purchaser’s antitrust suit alleging overpayment for a drug purchased pursuant to a distribution agreement with a...more

Indirect Purchasers Cannot Sue Qualcomm Under Federal Law, But State Law Claims Survive

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 11/22/2017

A federal judge in California has refused to allow indirect purchasers of semiconductor chips—i.e., cell phone consumers—to bring claims against Qualcomm under federal antitrust law....more

Ninth Circuit Refines Antitrust Standing Doctrine Under Illinois Brick

Perkins Coie on 2/1/2017

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently addressed again when plaintiffs have standing to pursue federal antitrust claims under the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois, 431...more

Third Circuit Applies Presumption of Timeliness to Pre-Certification Motion to Intervene as Class Representative

Carlton Fields on 10/4/2016

This case concerned a federal antitrust class action involving a proposed class of Class 8 truck purchasers who alleged a conspiracy by several truck transmission suppliers and manufacturers to raise prices by eliminating...more

ANDA Update - October 2015

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/30/2015

Federal Circuit Interprets Statutory Requirements for Biosimilar Regulatory Pathway - Amgen Inc., v. Sandoz Inc., (Fed. Cir. July 21, 2015): In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...more