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In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation
Wyeth
We recently won summary judgment in an antitrust class action against our client, Wyeth (Pfizer), which brought to an end nearly a decade of related federal and state cases in which the plaintiffs had challenged Wyeth's settlement of a patent lawsuit relating to a patented potassium chloride product called K-Dur. In the antitrust litigation, plaintiffs alleged that the patent settlement between our client and Schering-Plough Corporation had anti-competitive effects and resulted in their paying more for K-Dur and other potassium chloride supplements than they otherwise would have paid. Approximately 50 separate state and federal lawsuits were filed making the substantially the same allegations, with the federal cases consolidated in multi-di
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United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al.
Philip Morris USA Inc.
Winston & Strawn represented Philip Morris USA in this case in which the government alleged that the defendant manufacturers had engaged in a 50-year-long scheme to defraud the American public about the health risks of smoking, for which it sought equitable relief under RICO.
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