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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Third Circuit Demands Rigorous Analysis of the Predominance Requirement for Class Certification in Pharmaceutical Antitrust Case

On April 22, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded an order certifying a class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in In re: Lamictal Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, holding that the district court...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

2019 Pharmaceutical Antitrust Round-Up: A Year in Pay for Delay [Part 2]

Yesterday we discussed 2019’s most significant developments in challenges to reverse-payment settlements. Today we continue our analysis of recent trends in pharmaceutical antitrust actions with a discussion of cases...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

First Circuit Restricts Class Certification of Classes Containing Uninjured Persons

In recent years, courts have reached divergent conclusions about the circumstances in which a damages class containing uninjured persons can be certified. Although there is some room to debate what constitutes injury, it is...more

Carlton Fields

No Injury, No Problem?: The First Circuit Weighs In On Certification Where Absent Class Members Lack Harm

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In Tyson Foods, the Supreme Court declined to resolve the issue of whether a class may be certified if it contains members who were not injured and have no legal right to damages. ...more

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Third Circuit Creates Framework for Analyzing Numerosity

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The Third Circuit recently vacated class certification, granted by the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after nearly a decade of litigation, in an antitrust case alleging that a pharmaceutical company entered into agreements...more

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