A federal judge has refused to stay the upcoming trial in a reverse-payment settlement antitrust case while the remaining defendants await the Third Circuit’s review of a class certification ruling.

Trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 2, 2016, in the case King Drug Co. of Florence v. Cephalon, a long-running suit by several different classes of plaintiffs who argued the reverse-payment settlements Cephalon entered with four generic pharmaceutical companies to delay the entry of a generic version of Provigil to market was anti-competitive and caused them to pay more for the drug.

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