Legal Opinion
State of Wisconsin v. Abbott Laboratories
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided September 29, 2005No. 05-C-408-CPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
CRABB, District Judge.
This civil action for monetary and in-junctive relief appears for the second time in this court. It is one of a number of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts across the country against pharmaceutical manufacturers. The gravamen of the complaint filed by plaintiff State of Wisconsin is that defendant pharmaceutical companies inflated the average wholesale prices of their drugs, thereby violating several provisions of Wisconsin law.
This action was commenced in the Circuit Court for Dane County in June 2004. Defendants removed it to this court in…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Rutherford v. Merck & Co., Inc.District Court, S.D. Illinois · 2006
- Hawaii v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc.District Court, D. Hawaii · 2006
- County of Santa Clara v. Astra USA, Inc.District Court, N.D. California · 2005
- Dudley v. Putnam Investment FundsDistrict Court, S.D. Illinois · 2007
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