Legal Opinion
In Re Insulin Manufacturing Antitrust Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided April 10, 1980No. 418PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This litigation consists of three actions pending in three federal districts: one each in the Northern District of Illinois, the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Involved in this litigation are alleged anticompetitive practices in the animal pancreas gland industry (animal pancreas glands are the “raw material” for insulin) and the finished insulin industry.
The Chicago Regional Office of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conducted an investigation concerning alleged unfair methods of competition (1) in the purchase and sale of…
3Cases cited4 opinions
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