Government Employees Health v. Intermune Inc.

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: December 30, 2011
• Docket: 09-56847
• Status: Unpublished

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FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION DEC 30 2011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,

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,

JEFFREY H. FRANKEL; ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HEALTH ASSOCIATION, INC.,

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 (N.D. Cal. Sept. 1, 2010) (Patel, J.) (Actimmune III).

AFFIRMED.

** The Honorable David A. Ezra, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Hawaii, sitting by designation.