Drug pricing antitrust suits against pharma companies are a dime a dozen. But what we can't remember seeing before at the Litigation Daily is a case in which one major brand pharmaceutical manufacturer is going to trial against another for alleged drug overcharges. The stakes are enormous--potential trebled damages of $9.8 billion--and the legal teams formidable.

The tobacco company's Munger Tolles lawyers argued that the city's ban on cigarette sales in pharmacies was a violation of Philip Morris's First Amendment rights. But the Ninth Circuit concluded there's no First Amendment right to sell cigarettes.