Endo Pharm. Inc. v. Fed. Trade Comm'n

Diamond, District Judge.

After the Federal Trade Commission voluntarily dismissed its enforcement action in this Court against Plaintiffs Watson Laboratories and Allergan Finance-and then refiled that same enforcement action in California-Plaintiffs brought this declaratory judgment suit, repeating the arguments made in their motions to dismiss in the original enforcement action. Although the FTC's apparent forum shopping may warrant sanctions, the law does not allow Plaintiffs to challenge the Commission's enforcement decisions by way of declaratory judgment when they can do so in defending…