Legal Opinion
Cheminor Drugs, Ltd. v. Ethyl Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 1, 1999No. 98-6004PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to analyze whether alleged misrepresentations by the defendant Ethyl Corp. (“Ethyl”)1 vitiates application of the immunity afforded by the Noerr-Pen-nington doctrine and thus defeats Ethyl’s “objective basis” for petitioning the government for protection of its bulk ibuprofen industry from imports of bulk ibuprofen by plaintiffs Cheminor Drugs, Ltd. and Reddy-Cheminor, Inc. (collectively, “Cheminor”).
Cheminor’s ibuprofen exports to the United States were found to be heavily subsidized by the Government of India (“India”), and…
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