In re Wellbutrin XL Antitrust Litigation

MEMORANDUM

McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are a group of indirect purchasers of Wellbutrin XL, a once-a-day antidepressant, who are suing the producers of Wellbutrin XL, Biovail Corp., Biovail Laboratories, Biovail Laboratories International (together, “Biovail”), and its distributors, SmithKline Beecham Corp. and GlaxoS-mithKline PLC (together, “GSK”), for illegally conspiring to prevent generic versions of Wellbutrin XL, or buproprion hydrochloride, from entering the American market for that drug.

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 572 Health and Welfare Fund (“Local 572”), IBEW-NECA…