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King Drug Co. of Florence, Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc., PICS Case No. 17-1410 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 28, 2017) Goldberg, U.S.D.J. (23 pages).

Class certification denied where plaintiffs failed to satisfy numerosity requirement, as joinder of the proposed class members was not impractical due to cost and resource sharing through joinder mitigating the financial and logistical barriers to joinder. Motion for class certification denied.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Pfizer Accuses J&J of Stifling Competition From Rival Drug

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sued rival Johnson & Johnson over claims the company forced health care providers and insurers into exclusionary contracts aimed at blocking a competing autoimmune medication Pfizer recently introduced into the market.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

White & Case Welcomes Six Lawyers on Three Continents

In its bid to expand its corporate practice in Europe, White & Case has hired a pair of private equity partners from a leading Scandinavian firm in Stockholm, as well as picking up an antitrust expert in Milan and two specialists in New York and Tokyo.
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New York Law Journal

Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law: The Debate Continues

Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and want to use that data in different ways. This complexity means that the legality of some methods of culling and using Big Data remains unclear. A recent case signals a shift in the way courts may be viewing attempts to restrict one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate: data scraping.
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New York Law Journal

Lawyer Caught Up in Willkie Partner's Arrest Promises Tell-All Memoir

A plaintiffs lawyer whose career was upended over his communications with a criminally indicted former Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner is writing what he called a "deeply personal memoir" about "friendship and betrayal" related to the still-evolving drama.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Downton Abbey Meets Antitrust—and DOJ Comes up Empty-Handed

The beauty (or the terror, depending on your perspective) of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division is that you never know where it'll strike. One minute the feds are taking down multi-billion dollar international cartels. The next, they're busting players in an industry that sounds more like a Downton Abbey plot device: heir location services
21 minute read

International Edition

Simpson Thacher hires A&O practice head in Washington DC

US firm recruits the head of A&O's Washington investigations and litigation team
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The American Lawyer

Simpson Thacher Adds Allen & Overy Practice Leader in DC

John Terzaken, co-head of the global antitrust practice at Allen & Overy and head of the Magic Circle firm's investigations and litigation practice in Washington, D.C., is poised to join Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in the nation's capital.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Presidential Power and Antitrust Politics: Part Two

Last month we discussed the role of the presidency in formulating ­antitrust policy, pointing out the fallacy of the view that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has historically been (or should be) completely independent of the White House. We posited that history shows that the Antitrust Division's ­enforcement decisions have been (and should be) a product of informed presidential policy and that past presidents have ­attempted to apply the Sherman Act in a way that balances the panoply of ­challenges, both foreign and domestic, that every president elected by the people ­invariably faces.
20 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

US Judge Refuses to Toss Lloyd's of London Price-Fixing Suit

A federal judge in Newark has denied a motion to dismiss a suit accusing underwriters at Lloyd's of London of conspiring to increase revenue and profits by concealing a lack of competition for its U.S. insurance customers.
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