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FTC v. INDIANA FEDERATION OF DENTISTS

No. 84-1809.

476 U.S. 447 (1986)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. INDIANA FEDERATION OF DENTISTS

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1986

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcy J. K. Tiffany argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Ginsburg, Ernest J. Isenstadt, David C. Shonka, and L. Barry Costilo.

Bruce W. Graham argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Ronald K. Fowler.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were field for the American College of Radiology by Reuben L. Hedlund and James A. Cherney; for the American Dental Association by Peter M. Sfikas; for the American Medical Association by Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr., Carter G. Phillips, Newton N. Minow, and Jack R. Bierig; and for the Physicians and Surgeons Association of Massachusetts, Inc., by Robert D. Paul and Donald B. Gould.

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case concerns commercial relations among certain Indiana dentists, their patients, and the patients' dental health care insurers. The question presented is whether the Federal Trade Commission correctly concluded that a conspiracy among dentists to refuse to submit x rays to dental insurers for use in benefits determinations constituted an "unfair method of competition...

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