CA-0011-1185 Nonprecedential Affirmed Processed

Buddy" Caldwell, Attorney General Ex. Rel. State of Louisiana v. Janssen Pharmaceutical Inc. "

Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit · Filed August 31, 2012

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 3d Cir., October 17, 2012; La. Ct. App. 3d Cir., November 23, 2011

Opinion text

STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

11-1185
consolidated with 11-1184

“BUDDY” CALDWELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL EX REL.
STATE OF LOUISIANA

VERSUS

JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICAL, INC., ET AL.

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APPEAL FROM THE
TWENTY-SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
PARISH OF ST. LANDRY, NO. 04-C-3977-D
HONORABLE DONALD W. HEBERT, DISTRICT JUDGE

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PHYLLIS M. KEATY
JUDGE

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Court composed of J. David Painter, Shannon J. Gremillion, and Phyllis M. Keaty,
Judges.

AFFIRMED.

Patrick C. Morrow
James P. Ryan
Jeffrey M. Bassett
Morrow & Morrow
Post Office Drawer 1787
Opelousas, Louisiana 70571-1787
(337) 948-4483
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

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James B. Irwin
David W. O’Quinn
Kim E. Moore
Monique M. Garsaud
Douglas J. Moore
Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore, LLC
400 Poydras Street, Suite 2700
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
(504) 310-2100
Counsel for Defendants/Appellants:
Johnson & Johnson
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Kenneth W. DeJean
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 4325
Lafayette, Louisiana 70502
(337) 235-5294
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

Robert Lyle Salim
Attorney at Law
1901 Texas Street
Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457
(318) 352-5999
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

L. Christopher Styron
Assistant Attorney General
Post Office Box 94005
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804-9005
(225) 326-6468
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

Michael W. Perrin
Fletcher V. Trammel
Bailey, Perrin & Bailey
440 Louisiana Avenue, Suite 2100
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 425-7100
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

Kenneth T. Fibich
Fibich, Hampton, et al
1150 Bissonnet
Houston, Texas 77005
(713) 751-0025
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

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Robert Cowan
Attorney at Law
440 Louisiana Avenue, Suite 2100
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 425-7100
Counsel for Plaintiff/Appellee:
James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Louisiana Attorney General

James T. Guglielmo
James C. Lopez
Guglielmo, Lopez, Tuttle
Post Office Drawer 1329
Opelousas, Louisiana 70571-1329
(337) 948-8201
Counsel for Defendants/Appellants:
Johnson & Johnson
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Thomas F. Campion
Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP
500 Campus Drive
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932-1047
(973) 360-1100
Counsel for Defendants/Appellants:
Johnson & Johnson
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Brian C. Anderson
Michael E. Stamp
Stephen D. Brody
O’Melveny & Myers, LLP
1625 Eye Street, Northwest
Washington DC 20006
(202) 383-5300
Counsel for Defendants/Appellants:
Johnson & Johnson
Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceutical, Inc.

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KEATY, Judge.

For the reasons set forth in the companion case in this consolidated matter,

“Buddy” Caldwell, Attorney General ex rel. State of Louisiana v. Janssen

Pharmaceutical, Inc., et al., 11-1184 (La.App. 3 Cir. __/__/12), __ So.3d __, the

judgments appealed are affirmed in their entirety. Costs are cast to defendants.

AFFIRMED.

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