United States Third Circuit

In one of six similar antitrust actions challenging the practices of prescription benefits managers, that was transferred by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation for coordinated proceedings, a transferee judge's order vacating the transferor judge's order compelling arbitration is vacated and remanded with instructions to reinstate the order compelling arbitration as the vacatur order violated the law of the case doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2008
• Decided 09/24/2009
• Published 09/24/2009

Judges

• Before McKEE and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and ALDISERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven E. Bizar, Esq., Landon Y. Jones, III, Esq., Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Philadelphia, PA, Michael Sennett, Esq., Paula W. Render, Esq., (Argued), Jones Day, Victor E. Grimm, Esq., Jason M. Marks, Esq., Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, Chicago, IL, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael J. Freed, Esq., Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, Bannockburn, IL, Jean K. Janes, Esq., Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C., Chicago, IL, H. Laddie Montague, Jr., Esq., (Argued), Martin I. Twersky, Esq., Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.