PATRICK v. BURGET

Nos. 85-3759, 85-4071.

800 F.2d 1498 (1986)

Timothy A. PATRICK, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William M. BURGET, M.D., Jorma M. Leinassar, M.D., R.G. Kettlekamp, M.D., Patrick Meyer, M.D., Gary Boelling, M.D., Robert D. Neikes, M.D., Franklin D. Russell, M.D., Leigh C. Dolin, M.D., Richard C. Harris, M.D., Daniel M. Rappaport, M.D., and Tzu Sung Chiang, M.D. doing business as Astoria Clinic, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Marmaduke, Barbee B. Lyon, Tonkon, Torp, Galen, Marmaduke & Booth, Portland, Or., John A. Reuling, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, Or., for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas M. Triplett, Schwabe, Williamson, Wyatt, Moore & Roberts, Rick T. Haselton, Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, Portland, Or., for defendants-appellants.

Herbert H. Anderson, Theodore C. Falk, Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, Bledsoe, Anderson & Young, Portland, Or., for amicus curiae Oregon Ass'n of Hospitals.

Dave Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., James E. Mountain, Jr., Sol. Gen., John A. Reuling, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, Or., for amicus curiae State of Or.

Douglas R. Carlson, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, Ill., for amicus curiae Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, The American Medical Ass'n and The Oregon Medical Ass'n.

Before FLETCHER, ALARCON and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, partners in the Astoria Clinic, a medical clinic, appeal from a jury verdict in favor of Dr. Timothy Patrick, a surgeon in Astoria, for violations of Sherman Act sections 1 and 2 and for interference with prospective economic advantage under Oregon law. Because the conduct at the heart of the antitrust claims is exempt from liability under the state action doctrine, we reverse the judgment on the Sherman

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