SPRINGS AMBULANCE SERVICE v. CITY OF RANCHO MIRAGE

No. 84-5509.

745 F.2d 1270 (1984)

SPRINGS AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIFORNIA; City of Indian Wells, California; City of Palm Desert, California; and Cove Communities Fire Commission, Appellants-Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted October 25, 1984.

Decided October 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick G. Dorman, Richard A. Jones, Cox, Castle & Nicholson, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Richard R. Terzian, Scott F. Field, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants-defendants.

Before ANDERSON, SKOPIL and POOLE, Circuit Judges.


POOLE, Circuit Judge:

A private ambulance company which had effectively been barred from the emergency ambulance market of three of the California desert cities when they decided to provide free municipal ambulance service brought this suit under federal antitrust laws. The cities appeal the district court's order denying their claim of immunity under Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341, 63 S.Ct. 307, 87 L.Ed. 315 (1943). We reverse...

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