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'Far too speculative': Amgen fights FTC's request for injunction against...

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  • cafead   Aug 24, 2023 at 11:52: AM
via As the Federal Trade Commission tries to block Amgen’s $28 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics with an injunction, Amgen has a lot to say in court filings.

The FTC’s case is “far too removed from reality and unmoored from decades of legal precedent,” Amgen’s lawyers wrote in a response to FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction. The company filed the note to a federal court in Illinois on Tuesday.

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