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Third Circuit Remands Class Certification Ruling in Blood Reagents Price-Fixing Case
2015-04-17 08:19:43| Biotech - Topix.net
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a district court's order certifying a class of direct purchasers of blood reagents in a price-fixing suit against Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. In re Blood Reagents , case number 12-4067. Plaintiffs allege that Ortho-Clinical Diagnostic Inc. and a producer of blood reagents, violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by conspiring with the only other U.S. producer of reagents, Immucor Inc., to raise prices of blood reagents on numerous occasions throughout the 2000s.
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