{"id":1627,"date":"2024-07-03T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-denies-wholesalers-class-certification-motion-in-epipen-litigation\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:33:21","slug":"judge-denies-wholesalers-class-certification-motion-in-epipen-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-denies-wholesalers-class-certification-motion-in-epipen-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Denies Wholesalers&#8217; Class Certification Motion in EpiPen Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge in Minnesota denied a motion for class certification by drug wholesalers in a\u00a0lawsuit accusing EpiPen\u00a0manufacturer\u00a0Mylan of overcharging for the medication in an alleged racketeering scheme, concluding that the plaintiffs failed to\u00a0satisfy certification requirements, including numerosity and commonality.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge\u00a0Eric C. Tostrud for the District of Minnesota\u00a0determined that the plaintiffs, Rochester Drug Co-Operative and Dakota Drug,\u00a0failed\u00a0to affirmatively demonstrate\u00a0that the class was so numerous and joinder of all members is impracticable under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 23(a)(1), among other procedural reasons, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ubSHiuZ8LwYVLofjjKLxXeJ-LeiqC7sh\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 1 opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Minnesota denied a motion for class certification by drug wholesalers in a\u00a0lawsuit accusing EpiPen\u00a0manufacturer\u00a0Mylan of overcharging for the medication in an alleged racketeering scheme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1838,650,1242,2319,423,1130,298,2318],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-certification","tag-class","tag-denies","tag-epipen","tag-judge","tag-litigation","tag-motion","tag-wholesalers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}