SMITH v. NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITALS, INC.

No. G79-182.

518 F.Supp. 644 (1981)

James R. SMITH, M.D.; Richard A. Knecht, M.D.; Thomas G. Depuydt, M.D.; Bradford S. Foster, M.D.; and Clark E. Taylor, D.O., Plaintiffs, v. NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITALS, INC., a Michigan nonprofit corporation and Burns Clinic Medical Center, P.C., a Michigan professional corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Michigan, S. D.

July 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Buchanan of Cholette, Perkins & Buchanan, Grand Rapids, Mich., Grady Avant, Jr. of Long, Preston, Kinnaird & Avant, Detroit Mich., for plaintiffs.

Gregory L. Curtner of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, Detroit, Mich., for defendant Burns Medical Center.

Derek I. Meier of Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit Mich., for defendant Northern Michigan Hospitals.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, all physicians licensed by the State of Michigan, have alleged violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 2) by Defendants Northern Michigan Hospitals, a Michigan non-profit corporation and Burns Clinic, a multi-specialty professional corporation, for activities that have arisen in connection with the merger in 1977 of the former Little Traverse Hospital and the former...

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