United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of complaint is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in dismissing the complaint based on its conclusion that the settlement agreement was not a violation of antitrust law and that the plaintiffs did not suffer antitrust injury as a result of the alleged violation. (Amended)

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/10/2006
• Published 08/21/2006

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  POOLER, SACK, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.  POOLER, Circuit Judge, dissents in a separate opinion.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Douglas Richards, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP (Michael M. Buchman, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, New York, NY;  Patrick E. Cafferty, Miller Faucher and Cafferty LLP, Ann Arbor, MI;  Bernard Persky, Barbara J. Hart, Hollis L. Salzman, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, NY;  Robert S. Schachter, Joseph Lipofsky, Joseph S. Tusa, Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling, LLP, New York, NY;  Robert G. Eisler, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY;  of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Bruce E. Gerstein, Garwin Bronzaft Gerstein & Fisher LLP (Barry S. Taus, Jan Bartelli, Garwin Bronzaft Gerstein & Fisher LLP;  Steve D. Shadowen, Monica L. Rebuck, Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, Harrisburg, PA;  of counsel), New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Louisiana Wholesale Drug Company, Inc., CVS Meridian Inc., and Rite Aid Corporation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel M. Cohen, Davis Polk & Wardwell (Diem-Suong T. Nguyen, Douglas K. Yatter, Wendy L. Silver, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY;  George C. Lombardi, Christine J. Siwik, Maureen L. Rurka, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL;  of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.