KING DRUG COMPANY OF FLORENCE, INC. v. ABBOTT LABORATORIES

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA KING DRUG CO. OF FLORENCE, : CIVIL ACTION INC., et al. : : v. : : NO. 19-3565 ABBOTT LABORATORIES, et al. : MEMORANDUM Bartle, J. July 20, 2023 Plaintiffs1 have moved this court to compel defendants to produce certain privileged and work-product documents on the ground that the crime-fraud exception applies (Doc. #248). Plaintiffs are direct-purchase wholesalers of pharmaceutical drugs. They bring this civil antitrust action under the Sherman Act,

15 U.S.C. §§ 1

et seq., against drug manufacturers AbbVie and Besins.2…