Legal Opinion
Wisconsin v. Amgen, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 2008No. 07-1999PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The State of Wisconsin filed a suit in a Wisconsin state court against Dey and others, charging fraudulent pricing of pharmaceutical drugs in violation of Wisconsin state law. (Dey, a subsidiary of Merck, is a manufacturer of such drugs.) Many similar suits have been filed in other state courts. See In re Pharmaceutical Industry Average Wholesale Price, 509 F.Supp.2d 82 (D.Mass.2007). Three times Dey removed the case to federal district court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446, which provides, so far as relates to this case, that if “the case stated by the initial pleading is not…
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