Court Opinion

ID: 4329934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-11-13 16:01:40.379418+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:48:09.407139
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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ALLERGAN, INC., SAINT REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants

                            v.

 TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC., AKORN,
INC., MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC., MYLAN,
                    INC.,
             Defendants-Appellees
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                       2018-1130
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    Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Texas in No. 2:15-cv-01455-WCB,
Circuit Judge William C. Bryson.
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                      JUDGMENT
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     JONATHAN ELLIOT SINGER, Fish & Richardson, PC,
San Diego, CA, argued for all plaintiffs-appellants. Aller-
gan, Inc. also represented by JUANITA ROSE BROOKS;
JOSEPH HERRIGES, JR., DEANNA JEAN REICHEL, Minneap-
olis, MN; SUSAN E. MORRISON, ROBERT M. OAKES, Wil-
mington, DE.

   MICHAEL W. SHORE, Shore Chan DePumpo LLP,
Dallas, TX, for plaintiff-appellant Saint Regis Mohawk
Tribe.   Also represented by RUSSELL J. DEPALMA,
CHRISTOPHER LIIMATAINEN EVANS.

    JOHN CHRISTOPHER ROZENDAAL, Sterne Kessler Gold-
stein & Fox, PLLC, Washington, DC, argued for all de-
fendants-appellees. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. also
represented by MICHAEL E. JOFFRE, WILLIAM H. MILLIKEN,
PAULINE PELLETIER, RALPH WILSON POWERS, III.

    MICHAEL R. DZWONCZYK, Sughrue Mion PLLC, Wash-
ington, DC, for defendant-appellee Akorn, Inc. Also
represented by MARK BOLAND, BENJAMIN CAPPEL.

   DOUGLAS H. CARSTEN, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich &
Rosati, PC, San Diego, CA, for defendants-appellees
Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Mylan, Inc. Also represent-
ed by CHRISTINA ELIZABETH DASHE; WENDY L. DEVINE,
San Francisco, CA.

    AARON STIEFEL, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP,
New York, NY, for amicus curiae Pharmaceutical Re-
search and Manufacturers of America. Also represented
by DAVID EVAN KORN, Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturers Association of America, Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (PROST, Chief Judge, REYNA and HUGHES,
Circuit Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT
November 13, 2018   /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
     Date           Peter R. Marksteiner
                    Clerk of Court