Case Summary

5037 Pharmacies that paid drug companies for overpriced pharmaceuticals can sue under California’s Cartwright Act, Bus. & Prof. Code §§16700 etseq, even though they were able to pass on to consumers the cost of the higher prices.

CLAYWORTH v PFIZER (Overpriced Pharmaceuticals) 49 C4 758 [See Clayworth v Pfizer 165 CA4 209, REV GRTD, T/AT 9/2008; B&PC §16700 etseq, 17200 etseq; Hanover Shoe v United Shoe Machinery Corp, 392 US 481]