White & Case antitrust“firsts”
White & Case’s antitrust team develops
innovative, energetic strategies—leading
to a long list of antitrust “firsts”:
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First jury trial loss of the Antitrust Division
in a financial institutions benchmark case –U.S. v. Usher (S.D.N.Y. 2018)
First Seventh Amendment defeat of classcertification – In re Asacol Antitrust
Litigation (1st Cir. 2018)
First U.S. product hopping case won on afull factual record – Mylan v. Warner
Chilcott (E.D. Pa. 2015)
First use of FRE 502 to defeat shamantitrust counterclaims – Shionogi v. Mylan(D. Del. 2011)
First jury trial defeat of a monopolization
reverse payment case – Kaiser v. Abbott(C.D. Cal. 2006)
First antitrust jury case to demonstrate that“last man standing” defendants areprotected by other settlements – In re TFTLCD Antitrust Litigation (Toshiba) (N.D.
Cal. 2012)
First and only successful annulment ofliability in TV tubes appeal before EU Court– Toshiba v. Commission (2015)
First challenge to ECJ on boundaries of EC
and national antitrust advisory jurisdiction –Toshiba v. Commission (2015)

First to litigate and defeat the Antitrust
Division using an amnesty agreement –Stolt-Nielsen v. U.S.; U.S. v. Stolt-Nielsen(E.D. Pa. 2007)
First injunction against an amnesty
criminal prosecution – Stolt-Nielsen v. U.S.
(E.D. Pa. 2005)
First extradition case brought by U.S. DOJ
Antitrust Division – U.S. v. Ian Norris (E.D.
Pa. 2010)
First Hartford Fire extraterritorial reach civil
jury trial – Dee-K v. Heveafil (W.D.N.C.
2001)
First Hartford Fire extraterritorial classaction jury trial – In re TFT-LCD Antitrust
Litigation (Toshiba) (N.D. Cal. 2012)
First trial loss for FTC in a reverse
payment monopolization case (defeatingthe FTC in front of its own Administrative
Law Judge, an employee of the FTC) –FTC v. Upsher-Smith (FTC 2002)
First and second monopolization patentsettlement appellate wins – Valley Drug(11th Cir. 2003) & Upsher-Smith (11th Cir.
2005)
First and second patent settlement trial
wins – Kaiser (C.D. Cal. 2006), K-Dur(FTC 2002)
First FTC loss at Supreme Court on cert.
in 25 years – K-Dur (2013)

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Smallest pharmaceutical drug antitrustclass action settlement – In re Botox
Antitrust Litigation (C.D. Cal. 2018)
First merger case in U.S. history to receivea full expedited appeal in such acompressed time frame at the U.S. Courtof Appeals – U.S. v. Anthem (D.C. Cir.
2017)
First federal district court loss for FTC's
monopolization attack on reverse
payments – In re AndroGel Antitrust
Litigation (N.D. Ga. 2010)
First software merger trial victory – U.S. v.
SunGard (D.D.C. 2001)
Fastest merger trial in U.S. history – U.S.
v. SunGard (D.D.C. 2001)
First class action defeats via arbitration
clause enforcement – JLM Indus. v. StoltNielsen (2d Cir. 2004)

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First forced patent license cases – IMS
Health (EC 2003)
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First successful challenge to the European
Union’s Dawn Raid procedure – Nexans v.
Commission (2012) (our defense casecreated the modern right of “search andseizure” in all of Europe)
First cartel case trial within a merger trial –U.S. v. UPM-Kymmene (N.D. Ill. 2003)

First simultaneous merger-patentsettlement agreement – Sepracor-Arrow(2009)First EU case on misuse of standards –Rambus (EC 2009)First decision to hold the U.S. Antitrust
Division violated Due Process Rights –U.S. v. Stolt-Nielsen (3d Cir. 2006)
First FOIA loss for the U.S. Antitrust
Division – Stolt-Nielsen v. U.S. (D.C. Cir.
2008)
First consent decree patent settlementagreement – In re AndroGel Antitrust
Litigation (N.D. Ga. 2014)
First defeat of class action arbitration –Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds (U.S.
Supreme Court 2010)
First successful challenge of European
Commission – Microsoft Corp. v.
Commission (EC 2007)
First loss in market definition case forEuropean Commission in 40 years –Servier SAS and Others v. Commission(EC 2018)