Robin Free and Renee Free v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc., and Mead Johnson & Company

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

In this second appeal generated by an antitrust class action against baby-formula manufacturers, appellants renew their argument that the district court’s exercise of diversity jurisdiction was improper because their claims did not satisfy the amount in controversy requirement of 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (1993). They alternatively contend that the district court erred in ruling that Louisiana antitrust law denied them standing due to their status as indirect purchasers. Since the precise issue of jurisdiction was decided by this court before, the law of the case prevents…