On June 11, 2009, Labaton Sucharow LLP filed class action lawsuits in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of a proposed class of direct purchasers of blood reagents and/or related medical equipment.

Plaintiffs allege that Defendants Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., and Immucor, Inc. conspired to unlawfully fix the prices at which blood reagents would be sold in the United States between January 1, 2000 and the present. The case is pending before the Honorable Jan E. Dubois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Plaintiffs include hospitals, clinical laboratories, blood donor centers, and blood banks that have purchased blood reagents products directly from Defendants.