RATLIFF v. BURNEY

No. 81-1203.

657 F.2d 640 (1981)

Lawrence S. RATLIFF, on his own behalf and on behalf of all other taxpayers of Anson County, North Carolina, Appellants, v. Fred A. BURNEY, Floyd Deen, Jr., Gultekin Ertugrul and Abdul Naizi-Sai, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Chapman, Wadesboro, N. C., for appellants.

Alfred S. Bryant, H. Heath Alexander, Charlotte, N. C. (James C. Smith, Henderson, N. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we affirm the district court's dismissal of an antitrust action on the ground that plaintiffs Lawrence Ratliff and others have no standing to sue.

I.

In October 1979, Lawrence Ratliff, a taxpayer of Anson County, filed a class action alleging that four Anson County doctors had combined and conspired to boycott the Anson County Hospital by withholding admission of their patients to the hospital in June and August...

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