US Supreme Court won't revive mumps vaccine antitrust case against Merck
Source: msn/Reuters
11h
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a group of physicians and healthcare providers to revive their antitrust lawsuit accusing drugmaker Merck of misleading federal regulators to maintain a decades-long monopoly over the mumps vaccine market.
The justices turned away an appeal by the plaintiffs of a lower court's decision to throw out the lawsuit on the basis that the drugmaker was protected under a legal doctrine that immunizes companies from antitrust claims based on actions aimed at swaying government decision-making.
A collection of family doctors and physicians' groups from New Jersey and New York filed the lawsuit in 2012 in federal court in Philadelphia, seeking monetary damages.
Merck in a statement said the "lawsuit lacked any legal or factual basis, and Merck is pleased that the Supreme Court has sided with the lower courts and brought an end to it."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-supreme-court-wont-revive-mumps-vaccine-antitrust-case-against-merck/ar-AA1OPWo5