Pharmacy Benefit Managers Antitrust Litigation

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the extraordinary circumstances in which “a court [is not prohibited] from revisiting its own decisions or one of a coordinate court[ are:] where (1) new evidence is available or (2) a supervening new law has been announced. . .[or, (3
• stating courts should “be loathe to [reverse prior rulings] in the absence of extraordinary circumstances such as where the initial decision was clearly erroneous and would make a manifest injustice.”
• vacating the order of a district court that cited portions of the Manual for Complex Litigation, analyzing the portions of the order, and concluding that the Manual references “clearly do[] not have the force of law and can not undermine [binding authority]”
• vacating a district judge’s order vacating an earlier order where the district judge “did not rely on any of the recognized exceptions to the law of the case doctrine” and failed to “find any extraordinary circumstance that would have justified” vacating the earlier order
• explaining PBMs negotiate discounts and rebates from drug makers
• “[A] trial judge has the discretion to reconsider an issue and should exercise that discretion whenever it appears that a previous ruling, even if unambiguous, might lead to an unjust result.” (quoting Swietlowich v. Cty. of Bucks, 610 F.2d 1157, 1164 (3d Cir. 1979))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).