FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER v. MOHAMMAD

No. 77-1924.

586 F.2d 530 (1978)

FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER, INC., a Florida non-profit Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. Mahmood MOHAMMAD, M. D., et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betty Owen Stinson, Steven L. Seliger, Kent Spriggs, Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Nadine Taub, Women's Rights Litigation Clinic, Joan Friedland, Newark, N. J., amicus curiae for American Public Health Assoc., Nat'l Abortion Rights Action League & American Civil Liberties Union.

Murray M. Wadsworth, M. Stephen Turner, Tallahassee, Fla., for Curry.

John C. Cooper, Tallahassee, Fla., for Griner.

J. Lewis Hall, Jr., Anne C. Booth, Tallahassee, Fla., for Messer.

E. Harper Field, Frank J. Santry, Tallahassee, Fla., for Mohammad, Curry, Crane, and Griner.

Michael I. Schwartz, Stephen Marc Slepin, Tallahassee, Fla., for Palmer.

Before WISDOM, THORNBERRY and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from an antitrust summary judgment raises questions concerning the jurisdictional reach of the Sherman Act, the scope of the Noerr-Pennington defense, the Parker doctrine of state action immunity, and the applicability of Florida's anticombination statute to the medical profession. The Feminist Women's Health Center, Inc. ("the Center"), brought this action for injunctive and monetary relief against Drs. Mohammad, Curry...

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