The case alleges that the four major manufacturers conspired with one another and with their distributors and independent eye care professionals to establish minimum pricing for certain types of contact lenses. Plaintiffs sought class certification for a horizontal conspiracy as well as a series of classes as to each defendant alleging a vertical conspiracy between each defendant and its distributors and eye care professionals.
May 24, "There's Gambling Going on Here? The decision, Murphy v. In fact, it draws a line as to how far Congress can go in imposing laws on individual State governmental bodies. Windsor, U. There, the Court found that, even in a settlement context, a district court had to consider all of the Rule 23 a and b 3 factors other than management issues at trial in determining whether class certification of a settlement agreement is appropriate. June 22, Generic Drugs - A grand conspiracy?
In , the news that the Department of Justice was investigating the incredible increase in the prices of off-patent generic drugs brought about the filing of several suits accusing pharmaceutical companies of fixing prices on Digoxin and Doxycycline. The DOJ investigation, coupled with a parallel investigation by a multistate task force of State Attorneys General led by the Attorney General of Connecticut, brought a great deal of attention to this unusual pricing behavior.
House of Representatives, where it will undoubtedly pass without change and move on to the Senate for more serious consideration. As an attorney whose practice is almost exclusively involved in prosecuting class actions, I view the Bill in its present form as a clear effort by the Big Business lobby to kill, once and for all, class actions as a means of redress for American consumers and others who have been harmed by illegal actions of the business community. Aside from the fact that I have to travel from South Jersey to Lower Manhattan and arrive before AM which is no easy task , I get to sit back and watch two excellent teams of lawyers put their skills on display before a very competent jurist.
The Panel, consisting of seven federal judges both District and Circuit Court judges , meets approximately six times per year at various mostly delightful locations throughout the country.
The hearings always take place on a Thursday, giving the Panel members and the attorneys who are attending the Panel an opportunity to spend a long weekend in a venue that most of us would consider a prime vacation spot.
April 21, The Pirates of the Class Action World Most often, when anyone thinks about class actions to the extent that anyone ever does , scorn is heaped on plaintiffs' lawyers for receiving huge fees and getting little for the parties who were actually injured by the illegal acts of defendants.
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