IN RE ROTAVIRUS VACCINES ANTITRUST LITIGATION
Case Number:
2:18-cv-01734
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
Judge:
Firms
- Bailey & Glasser
- Berger Montague
- Cohen Milstein
- Covington & Burling
- Edelson Lechtzin
- Grabar Law
- Hausfeld LLP
Companies
Sectors & Industries:
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November 23, 2020
Merck Again Denied In Bid To Arbitrate Vaccine Antitrust Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday refused for a second time to force doctors' practices into arbitration on proposed class action claims that Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. unlawfully overpriced vaccines, finding that discovery mandated by the Third Circuit shows they're too far removed from the arbitration provisions.
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September 18, 2020
Merck Says Vaccine Buyers Must Arbitrate Antitrust Suit
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. is doubling down on its bid to arbitrate claims in a proposed class action alleging it violated federal antitrust law by selling overpriced vaccines after the Third Circuit revived its attempt to keep the case out of court.
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January 23, 2019
Merck Can't Arbitrate Antitrust Suit Over Vaccine Bundles
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. cannot force each individual in a proposed class action to arbitrate claims that its pediatric vaccine bundles with alleged artificially inflated price tags are anti-competitive, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday, finding that the plaintiffs never signed arbitration agreements.
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July 31, 2018
Merck Says Vaccine Bundles Caused Low Prices, Not Harm
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.'s bundling of pediatric vaccines isn't anti-competitive because it kept prices at "rock bottom" and didn't block other companies from competing, the drugmaker told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday in a bid to boot a proposed class action.
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April 26, 2018
Merck Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Vaccine Bundle Discounts
A pediatric medical practice accused Merck & Co. of locking down the market for the rotavirus vaccine by "bundling" the drug with other childhood vaccines it sells to practitioners at a discount, according to a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.