FTC v. PENN STATE HERSHEY MED. CENTER

No. 16-2365.

838 F.3d 327 (2016)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellants v. PENN STATE HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER; Pinnacle Health System.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: September 27, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Shonka, Sr. , Acting General Counsel, Joel R. Marcus , Director of Litigation, Deborah L. Feinstein , Michele Arington , Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20580, William H. Efron [ARGUED], Ryan F. Harsch , Jared P. Nagley , Jonathan W. Platt , Geralyn J. Trujillo , Federal Trade Commission, One Bowling Green, Suite 318, New York, NY 10004, Counsel for Federal Trade Commission.

Bruce L. Castor, Jr. , Solicitor General of Pennsylvania, Bruce Beemer , First Deputy Attorney General, James A. Donahue, III , Executive Deputy Attorney General, Tracy W. Wertz , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer Thomson , Aaron L. Schwartz , Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, PA 17120, Counsel for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Charles I. Artz , Artz McCarrie Health Law, 200 North 3rd Street, Suite 12-B, Harrisburg, PA 17101, Counsel for Amicus Curiae Association of Independent Doctors.

Richard P. Rouco , Quinn Conner Weaver Davies & Rouco, LLP, 2-20th Street North, Suite 930, Birmingham, AL 35203, Counsel for Amici Curiae Economics Professors.

Lawrence G. Wasden , Attorney General of Idaho, Brett DeLange , Deputy Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of Idaho, Consumer Protection Division, 954 West Jefferson Street, 2nd Floor, Boise, ID 83720, Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General of Washington, Darwin P. Roberts , Deputy Attorney General, Jonathan A. Mark , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General of Washington, Antitrust Division, 800 5th Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98104, Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General of California, George Jepsen , Attorney General of Connecticut, Lisa Madigan , Attorney General of Illinois, Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General of Iowa, Janet T. Mills , Attorney General of Maine, Maura Healey , Attorney General of Massachusetts, Lori Swanson , Attorney General of Minnesota, Jim Hood , Attorney General of Mississippi, Tim Fox , Attorney General of Montana, Ellen F. Rosenblum , Attorney General of Oregon, Counsel for Amici Curiae States of Idaho, Washington, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, and Oregon.

William D. Coglianese , Louis K. Fisher [ARGUED], Julie E. McEvoy , Christopher N. Thatch , Adrian Wager-Zito , Alisha M. Crovetto , Jon G. Heintz , Jones Day, 51 Louisiana Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001, James P. DeAngelo , Kimberly A. Selemba , McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC, 100 Pine Street, P.O. Box 1166, Harrisburg, PA 17108, Counsel for Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System.

Before: FISHER, GREENAWAY, JR., and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

At issue in this case is the proposed merger of the two largest hospitals in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area: Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System. The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") opposes their merger and filed an administrative complaint alleging that it violates...

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