United States Ninth Circuit
Delaware Valley Surgical Supply Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson, 08-55105
In an interlocutory appeal stemming from a disagreement between two different groups of plaintiffs about who has standing as a "direct purchaser" to bring a claim against Johnson & Johnson and subsidiaries under federal antitrust laws, a judgment ruling against plaintiff-hospital is affirmed as it lacked standing to pursue an antitrust claim under a direct purchaser theory.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/30/2008
- Published 04/30/2008
Judges
- D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: ALFRED T. GOODWIN, HARRY PREGERSON, and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Russell T. Burke, Nexsen Pruet, LLC, Columbia, SC, for plaintiff-appellant.
- For Appellees:
- David M. Schiffman, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant., Daniel Berger, Eric L. Cramer, Peter Kohn, and Keith J. Verrier, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Gretchen M. Nelson, Kreindler & Kreindler LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.