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12-1-2005

Jersey Dental Lab v. Dentsply Intl Inc

Precedential or Non-Precedential: Precedential

Docket No. 04-1980

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PRECEDENTIAL

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

 

No. 04-1979

 

HOWARD HESS DENTAL LABORATORIES INCORPORATED;

PHILIP GUTTIEREZ, *d/b/a Dentures Plus, on behalf

of themselves and all other similarly situated,

 Appellants

 v.

DENTSPLY INTERNATIONAL, INC.

*Amended per Clerk's Order dated 4/30/04

 

No. 04-1980

 

JERSEY DENTAL LABORATORIES, f/k/a Howard Hess Dental

Laboratories Incorporated; PHILIP GUTTIEREZ, *d/b/a

Dentures Plus, on behalf of themselves and all others

similarly situated,

 Appellants

 v.

DENTSPLY INTERNATIONAL, INC.; A. LEVENTHAL & SONS, INC.;

ACCUBITE DENTAL LAB, INC.; ADDIUM DENTAL PRODUCTS;

ARNOLD DENTAL SUPPLY COMPANY; 

ATLANTA DENTAL SUPPLY COMPANY;

BENCO DENTAL COMPANY; BURKHART DENTAL SUPPLY COMPANY;

DARBY DENTAL LABORATORY SUPPLY CO., INC.; DENTAL SUPPLIES

AND EQUIPMENT, INC.; EDENTALDIRECT.COM, INC., as successor to

Crutcher Dental, Inc.; HENDON DENTAL SUPPLY, INC.;

HENRY SCHEIN, INC., and its affiliates including, without

limitation, Zahn Dental Co., Inc.; IOWA DENTAL SUPPLY CO.;

JAHN DENTAL SUPPLY COMPANY; JB DENTAL SUPPLY CO., INC.;
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JOHNSON & LUND CO., INC.; KENTUCKY DENTAL SUPPLY COMPANY, INC.

a/k/a KDSC Liquidation Corp.; MARCUS DENTAL SUPPLY CO;

MIDWAY DENTAL SUPPLY INC.; MOHAWK DENTAL CO., INC.; NASHVILLE

DENTAL, INC.; NOWAK DENTAL SUPPLIES, INC.; PATTERSON DENTAL

COMPANY, its subsidiaries, predecessors, successors, assigns,

affiliates and related companies; PEARSON DENTAL SUPPLIES, INC.;

RYKER DENTAL OF KENTUCKY, INC.; THOMPSON DENTAL COMPANY

*Amended per Clerk's Order dated 4/30/04

 

On Appeal from the United States District Court

for the District of Delaware

(D.C. Civil Action Nos. 99-cv-00255 / 01-cv-00267)

District Judge: Honorable Sue L. Robinson

 

Argued April 7, 2005

Before: BARRY, AMBRO and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges

Thomas A. Dubbs, Esquire (Argued)

Richard T. Joffe, Esquire

Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow

100 Park Avenue, 12th Floor

New York, NY 10017

Pamela S. Tikellis, Esquire

Robert J. Kriner, Jr. Esquire

Chimicles & Tikellis, LLP

One Rodney Square, Suite 500

P.O. Box 1035

Wilmington, DE 19899

Counsel for Appellants
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Margaret M. Zwisler, Esquire (Argued)

Eric J. McCarthy, Esquire

Charles R. Price, Esquire

Latham & Watkins LLP

555 Eleventh Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20004

Richard A. Ripley, Esquire

Bingham McCutchen LLP

1120 Twentieth Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036

Brian M. Addison, Esquire

Dentsply International, Inc.

Susquehanna Commerce Center

221 West Philadelphia Street

York, PA 17405

W. Harding Drane, Jr., Esquire

Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

1313 North Market Street, 6th Floor

P.O. Box 951

Wilmington, DE 19899

C. Scott Reese, Esquire

Cooch & Taylor

824 Market Street Mall, Suite 1000

P.O. Box 1680

Wilmington, DE 19899

James J. Maron, Esquire

Maron Marvel & Wilks, P.A.

1300 North Broom Street

P.O. Box 288

Wilmington, DE 19899

Counsel for Appellees
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ORDER AMENDING PUBLISHED OPINION

AMBRO, Circuit Judge

IT IS NOW ORDERED that the published Opinion in the above case filed

September 21, 2005, be amended as follows:

On page 5, line 3 of the paragraph, replace “Internationl” with

“International”.

On page 14, last two lines of the full paragraph, (1) replace “n.11, n.12”

with “nn.11–12” and (2) replace “n.23, n.27” with “nn.23, 27”.

On page 17, line 4–5 of the full paragraph, replace “497 U.S.” with “Id.”

On page 19, line 8 from the bottom of the page, (1) insert “of Louisville,

Ky.” after “Ass’n” and before “v. Stewart” and (2) replace “Enter.” with “Enters.”.

On page 20, line 11 of the full paragraph, replace “for damages would”

with “for damages could”.

On page 23, line 4 of the “When antitrust violators . . .” paragraph, replace

“in two ways” with “in two forms”.

On page 24, line 3, replace “770–772” with “770–72”.

On page 25, line 9, insert a “2” before “Phillip” and after “See”.

On page 25, lines 6–7 of the “A court might . . .” paragraph, replace this

text:

(observing that even if the “pass-on [defense] were permitted

 . . . [and] the defendant show[ed] that

with this text:

(observing that even if the pass-on defense were permitted and “the

defendant show[ed] that

On page 26, line 19, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.” after

“Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

On page 27, last line, replace the single quotation marks around “lost” with

double quotation marks.
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On page 27, last line, begin a new block-quote paragraph and indent before

“ . . . [Because]”.

On page 28, line 1, replace the “[]” with an ellipsis “. . .”.

On page 29, line 14, replace “Id. at” with “Harrison, supra, at”.

On page 29, line 15, delete “498”.

On page 29, line 19, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.” after

“Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

On page 30, line 3, reverse “that” and “(1)” so that the text reads “implying

(1) that past”.

On page 32, line 1 of the block quote, indent within the block quote before

“Illinois Brick”.

On page 32, line 6 of the block quote, start a new block-quote paragraph

and indent before “ . . . The court simply”.

On page 32, line 8 of the block quote, replace “fixing the price” with

“fixing that price”.

On page 33, line 10, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.” after

“Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

On page 33, line 10, insert “(footnote omitted)” after “369–70” and before

“.”.

On page 33, line 4 of the “In fact, a recent . . .” paragraph, insert a “2”

before “Areeda” and an “et al.” after “Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et

al., supra”.

On page 33, footnote 9, line 1, delete the comma between “Areeda” and “et

al.”.

On page 34, footnote 10, line 3, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.”

after “Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

On page 35, line 1, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.” after
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“Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

On page 37, footnote 12, line 4, insert a hyphen between “price” and

“fixing”.

On page 38, lines 12–13, change the heading to a question reading “Why

do we adopt a “limited” general co-conspirator exception?”.

On page 38, second line from the bottom, replace “), or” with “)—or”.

On page 42, footnote 15, second paragraph, line 7, insert a comma after

“i.e.”.

On page 44, line 5 of the “We hold that . . .” paragraph, replace “where”

with “whether”.

On page 44, footnote 16, line 1, insert a comma after “explained that”.

On page 45, line 9 of the “Further, every Court . . .” paragraph, insert “5th

Cir.” between “(“ and “1975)”.

On page 46, last line, delete the single quotation marks around “private

attorneys general”.

On page 47, line 7, insert “internal” between “citation and” and “quotation

marks”.

On page 47, footnote 18, line 1, insert a “2” before “Areeda” and an “et al.”

after “Areeda”, making the text read thus: “2 Areeda et al., supra”.

By the Court,

/s/ Thomas L. Ambro, Circuit Judge

Dated: December 1, 2005

CMD/cc: Thomas A. Dubb, Esq.

 Richard T. Joffe, Esq.

 Margaret M. Zwisler, Esq.

 Eric J. McCarthy, Esq.

 Charles R. Price, Esq.

 Richard A. Ripley, Esq.