VEST v. WARING

Civ. A. No. C82-325A.

565 F.Supp. 674 (1983)

Lloyd VEST, et al., Plaintiffs, v. George O. WARING, M.D., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

May 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Meals, Jr., Meals & Parks, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Mesirov, Gelman, Jaffe & Cramer, David Creskoff, Philadelphia, Pa., for Dr. Laibson.

Nina Loree Hunt, Asst. U.S. Atty., Atlanta, Ga., for Ronald G. Geller, M.D., Carl Kupfer, M.D., National Eye Inst., Edward D. Norton, M.D. and Aran Safir, M.D.

Baker & Hostetler, Phillip A. Proger, Washington, D.C., for Roger Langston, M.D.

Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey, Trammell E. Vickery, Kent E. Mast, Atlanta, Ga., for Stephen Obstbaum, M.D.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Rutledge C. Clement, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Dr. Safir and Dr. Kaufman.

Freeman & Hawkins, A. Timothy Jones, Atlanta, Ga., for Richard Thoft, M.D.

James J. Costello, University Counsel, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., for Joel Sugar, M.D.

Trotter, Bondurant, Miller & Hishon, Emmet J. Bondurant, Atlanta, Ga., Musick, Peeler & Garrett, Bruce A. Bevan, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for Schanzlin, Smith, Villasenor and Salz, M.D.

King & Spalding, A. Felton Jenkins, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for Drs. Waring, Cavanagh and Wilson.

Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Robert C. Bernius, Rochester, N.Y., for James Aquavella, M.D.

Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, James B. Hiers, Jr., Porter, Morris, Arthur, Atlanta, Ga., for Dr. Richard H. Keates.

Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Sidney F. Wheeler, Atlanta, Ga., for Drs. Waring, Cavanagh and Wilson.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, E.A. Simpson, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Dorsey & Whitney, James H. O'Hagan, James B. Lynch, Minneapolis, Minn., for Drs. Schoch, Bettman, McPherson, Reinecke, Newell, Spivey and Wilson.

Kilpatrick & Cody, Miles J. Alexander, Atlanta, Ga., for Edward D. Norton and Henry Gelender, M.D.

Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole, Felice K. Schonfeld, Miami, Fla., for Norton and Gelender.

Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, Lawrence E. Blades, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for Jay Krachmer, M.D. and Frederick Block, M.D.

Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens, Burck Bailey, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Balyeat and Rowsey.

Leonard, Street & Deinard, Stephen J. Davidson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Richard L. Lindstrom, M.D. and Donald J. Doughman, M.D.

Perry Rosen, Atty., Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Woodrow W. Vaughan, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for Dr. Binder.

Robert S. Frank, Jr., Thomas F. Maffei, Lee T. Gesmer, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., for Baum.

William J. Dunaj, Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwoody & Cole, Miami, Fla., for Gelender, M.D.

Paul Terrence Dee, General Counsel, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., for U. of Miami.


OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT H. HALL, District Judge.

ORDER

This lawsuit, filed on February 19, 1982, involves a surgical procedure known as radial keratotomy that is performed on the cornea of the eye in an attempt to correct nearsightedness. The gravamen of the complaint, predicated on Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1, 2,1 is that the...

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