Legal Opinion
Pfizer Inc. v. Government of India
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 27, 1978No. 76-749PublishedCited by 205 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
In this case we are asked to decide whether a foreign nation is entitled to sue in our courts for treble damages under the antitrust laws. The respondents are the Government of India, the Imperial Government of Iran, and the Republic of the Philippines. They brought separate actions in Federal District Courts against the petitioners, six pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. The actions were later consolidated for pretrial purposes in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.1 The complaints alleged that the peti*310tioners had conspired to restrain and monopolize…
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