The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit answers whether a distributor is a direct purchaser (Hypodermic Products Antitrust Litigation)

Richards, Douglas; Cormier, Christopher J.

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5 Jun 2012

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit answers whether a distributor is a direct purchaser (Hypodermic Products Antitrust Litigation)

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US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, In re Hypodermic Products Antitrust Litig., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 11293, 5 June 2012

In this judgment, the Third Circuit was asked to answer an increasingly common question in antitrust litigation in the medical industry: whether a distributor who purchases a product from a manufacturer, albeit pursuant to prices negotiated by a group purchasing organization at the behest of its

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Douglas Richards
Cohen Milstein (Washington)

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Christopher J. Cormier
Burns Charest (Washington)

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Douglas Richards, Christopher J. Cormier, The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit answers whether a distributor is a direct purchaser (Hypodermic Products Antitrust Litigation), 5 June 2012, e-Competitions June 2012, Art. N° 64512

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