Robin Free and Renee Free v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc., and Mead Johnson & Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that price fixing did not amount toa. tort where neither the Legislature or State Supreme Court recognized its existence as a tort
• noting that certification is most advisable “where important state interests are at stake and the state courts have not provided clear guidance on how to proceed”
• noting that “a federal court must always be satisfied that subject matter jurisdiction exists,” but “refus[ing] to recognize a ‘jurisdiction exception’ to the law of the case doctrine”
• declining to recognize tort cause of action for price fixing in violation of Louisiana antitrust laws where neither Louisiana Supreme Court nor legislature had done so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).