Government Employees Health v. Intermune Inc.
Government Employees Health v. Intermune Inc.
Opinion
FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION DEC 30 2011
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
In re: ACTIMMUNE MARKETING No. 10-17237 LITIGATION, D.C. No. 3:08-cv-02376-MHP
DEBORAH JANE JARRETT; NANCY ISENHOWER; JEFFREY H. FRANKEL; MEMORANDUM * ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY; LINDA K. RYBKOSKI,
Plaintiffs,
and
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
INTERMUNE INC.; W. SCOTT HARKONEN; GENENTECH INC.,
Defendants - Appellees,
and
CONNETICS CORPORATION;
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC.,
Defendants.
In re: ACTIMMUNE MARKETING No. 10-17239 LITIGATION, D.C. No. 3:08-cv-02376-MHP
DEBORAH JANE JARRETT; NANCY ISENHOWER; LINDA K. RYBKOSKI, MARL PERLMUTTER; LISA PERLMUTTER, Trustees of the Joan M. Stevens Trust,
Plaintiffs - Appellants,
and
JEFFREY H. FRANKEL; ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Plaintiffs,
v.
INTERMUNE INC.; W. SCOTT HARKONEN; GENENTECH INC.,
Defendants - Appellees,
and
CONNETICS CORPORATION; EXPRESS SCRIPTS, INC., Defendants.,
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Marilyn H. Patel, Senior District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted November 29, 2011 San Francisco, California
Before: THOMAS and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge.**
Deborah Jane Jarrett et. al., along with third-party payor Government
Employees Health Association, Inc., appeal the district court’s dismissal of their
proposed nationwide class action suit against InterMune, Inc., Dr. Scott Harkonen,
and Genentech, Inc. Because the parties are familiar with the history of the case,
we need not recount it here.
We affirm the judgment of the district court for the reasons set forth in the
district court’s orders. See In re Actimmune Marketing Litig., 614 F.Supp.2d 1037
(N.D. Cal. 2009) (Actimmune I); In re Actimmune Marketing Litig., No. C
08-02376 MHP, 2009 WL 3740648 (N.D. Cal. Nov. 6, 2009) (Patel, J.)
(Actimmune II ); In re Actimmune Marketing Litig., No. C 08-02376 MHP, 2010 WL 3463491
AFFIRMED.
** The Honorable David A. Ezra, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Hawaii, sitting by designation.
Reference
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