Contact Lens Companies Seek Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Over Minimum Pricing
Three contact lens companies and a distributor, who are defendants in a class-action lawsuit over pricing, filed a motion seeking a summary judgment in the matter in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida here earlier this week, according to a report by Vision Monday.
The defendants in the 3-year old suit are the contact lens companies Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, and Johnson & Johnson Vision, and the distributor ABB Optical Group, according to the court documents. In their motion for summary judgment, the companies noted that the “plaintiffs have failed to establish any evidence that the manufacturer defendants conspired to introduce Unilateral Pricing Policies (UPP)” and, additionally, that the plaintiffs “cannot point to a single communication with the distributor ABB showing the manufacturers were using ABB as a ‘hub’ to coordinate a supposed conspiracy among them,” the court filing noted.