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COOPER v. FORSYTH COUNTY HOSP. AUTHORITY, INC.

No. 85-1385.

789 F.2d 278 (1986)

Carlos T. COOPER, Jr., D.P.M. and E. Joseph Daniels, D.P.M., Appellants, v. FORSYTH COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, INC.; Jack P. Barrier, Marian F. Brower, Harley P. Graves, J. Clifton Harper, Kap H. Halverson, Kenneth A. Johnson, Eugene Rossitch, G. Dee Smith, Ann Spencer, Raymond D. Thomas, Martha J. Young, William F. Folds, M.D., David Nelson, M.D., William F. Sayers, M.D. and Louis Shaffner, M.D. individually and as trustees of Forsyth County Hospital Authority; George Podgorny, M.D.; Robert Means, M.D.; Jeff B. Helms, M.D.; Frank E. Pollock, M.D.; Kenneth G. Tomberlin, M.D.; John T. Hayes, M.D.; Richard P. Rose, M.D.; Robert G. Underdal, M.D.; Isabel Bittinger, M.D.; Jerome E. Jennings, M.D.; The Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and North Carolina Orthopedic Association, Inc., Appellees, and Carolyn Green, individually and as a trustee of Forsyth County Hospital Authority, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hamilton C. Horton, Jr. (T. Paul Hendrick, Horton, Hendrick & Kummer, Winston-Salem, N.C., on brief), for appellants.

Roddey M. Ligon, Jr. (Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, on brief), Winston-Salem, N.C., Samuel G. Thompson (John H. Anderson, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), George L. Little, Jr. (F. Joseph Treacy, Jr., Petree, Stockton, Robinson, Vaughn, Glaze & Maready, Winston-Salem, N.C., Thomas E. Harris, Dorie Benesh Refling, Ward & Smith, P.A., New Bern, N.C., Edward J. Westbrook, Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WIDENER, and ERVIN, Circuit Judges, and MOTZ, District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

Doctor Carlos T. Cooper, Jr. and Doctor E. Joseph Daniels brought a private antitrust suit after being denied podiatric surgical privileges at Forsyth Memorial Hospital, alleging an anticompetitive conspiracy. They now appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment against them, 604 F.Supp. 685. Because appellants have failed to proffer sufficient evidence from which to infer a conspiracy, we affirm...

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