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AUSTIN v. McNAMARA

No. 90-55333.

979 F.2d 728 (1992)

George AUSTIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James V. McNAMARA, M.D.; James R. St. John, M.D.; Richard B. Brown, M.D.; Paul J. Schweinfurth, M.D.; Thomas Jones, M.D.; Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Kallay, Santa Monica, Cal., David M. Harney, Harney, Drummond, Garza & Packer, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Ellis J. Horvitz, Sandra J. Smith, Horvitz & Levy, Encino, Cal., Jeffrey C. Moffat, Bonne, Jones, Bridges, Mueller & O'Keefe, Los Angeles, Cal., James P. Herzog, David R. Fisher, Herzog & Fisher, Marina del Rey, Cal., Jeanette M. Nelson, Bauer, Harris & McEvoy, Santa Barbara, Cal., John J. Weber, O'Flaherty & Belgum, Long Beach, Cal., Keith N. Crouch, George McDonald & Associates, South Pasadena, Cal., Randall L. Shelley, Rushfeldt, Shelley & Drake, Sherman Oaks, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Astrid G. Meghrigian, San Francisco, Cal., Lawrence Silver, Los Angeles, Cal., Stephen D. Libowsky, Katten, Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, Ill., for amici curiae.

Before PREGERSON, CANBY and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by plaintiff Dr. George Austin of a grant of summary judgment for the defendants, a hospital and doctors affiliated with it, in a case alleging Sherman Act and pendent state law violations. The district court held that the defendants were immune from antitrust liability under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 ("HCQIA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 11101-11152 (1988), which took effect while the events giving rise to...

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