RUTHERFORD v. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Nos. 15847, 15930.

379 F.2d 641 (1967)

Dr. F. Allen RUTHERFORD, Edward J. Cronley, Vera Mae Jeffries, Dorothy Williams, C. R. Easter, Chester Plonski, and Sally Ranich et al., Appellants, v. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

June 23, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Cronley, Amityville, N. Y., pro se.

Frank O. Walther, Haverford, Pa., John A. Hyde, Robert Elliott, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Edward V. Hanrahan, U. S. Atty., Roger J. Balla, James J. Kelly and John Peter Lulinski, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel, for other appellees.

Karl F. Nygren, Bernard Harrold, Elsie C. Spears, of Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., for American Medical Ass'n.

Prentice H. Marshall, John C. Tucker, Chicago, Ill., James J. Costello, Urbana, Ill., for Board of Trustees of University of Illinois, George D. Stoddard, Warren G. Cole, and Danely Slaughter.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge, and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.


HASTINGS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court's dismissal on all counts, of plaintiffs' suit for a permanent injunction against defendants, requiring them to cease interfering, in any way, with the national distribution of an alleged cancer drug, Krebiozen.

Jurisdiction in the case was asserted to arise from issues of constitutional import and from the civil rights statutes, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1983, 1984, 1985.

Plaintiffs are...

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