GOLD CROSS AMBULANCE & TRAN. v. CITY OF KANSAS CITY

No. 82-1913.

705 F.2d 1005 (1983)

GOLD CROSS AMBULANCE AND TRANSFER and Standby Service, Inc., Appellants, v. CITY OF KANSAS CITY, Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust, Hadley Reimal d/b/a Ambulance Services, Lawrence Hughes d/b/a Ambulance Services, June DeSaulniers d/b/a Ambulance Services, Eugene DeSaulniers d/b/a Ambulance Services, Ambulance Services, Inc., Fourth Party, Inc. and Jack Stout, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 26, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Leonard, Russell S. Jones, Jr., Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., Kansas City, Mo., for Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust, Ambulance Service, Inc., Jack Stout and Fourth Party, Inc.

Sam B. Mumma, William D. Geary, Asst. City Attys., Kansas City, Mo., for City of Kansas City, Mo.

Paden, Welch, Martin, Albano & Graeff, P.C., Michael W. Manners, C. Robert Buckley, Independence, Mo., for appellants.

Before HEANEY, McMILLIAN and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The issue we face here is whether the City of Kansas City, the Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust (MAST), and various other defendants1 violated the federal and state antitrust laws and the United States Constitution by implementing a single-operator ambulance system to provide all of the city's emergency and nonemergency service. We hold that Kansas City, MAST, and the consultants they retained are shielded from...

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