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· 10/8/1997

In Re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation. Appeals of Robert A. Huggins

Citations

  • 123 F.3d 599
  • 1997 WL 471819

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that \[a] state [antitrust act] cannot regulate sales that take place wholly outside it.\
  • stating that defendant’s clerical or ministerial costs of compliance cannot be used to meet the statutory minimum because “then every case, however trivial, against a large company would cross the threshold”
  • stating that court could rely on “the present value of the [anticipated] future cost savings” to plaintiffs that would result if the court enjoined the defendants’ alleged price-fixing
  • applying Alabama antitrust law in indirect purchaser action by Alabama pharmacies against out-of-state drug manufacturers
  • applying Alabama antitrust law in indirect purchaser action by Alabama pharmacies against out- of-state drug manufacturers
  • noting the otherwise applicable rule that aggregation is not permitted and, therefore, at least one plaintiff in a particular class must satisfy the jurisdictional minimum

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Judges: Posner, Bauer, Wood

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