NURSE MIDWIFERY ASSOCIATES v. HIBBETT

Nos. 88-5842, 89-5491.

918 F.2d 605 (1990)

NURSE MIDWIFERY ASSOCIATES; Susan Sizemore; Victoria Henderson; Darrell Martin, M.D.; Richard and Margaret Carpenter, Plaintiffs-Appellants (88-5842), Plaintiffs-Appellees (88-5491), v. B.K. HIBBETT, M.D.; E. Conrad Shackleford, M.D.; George Andrews, M.D.; Stephen Melkin, M.D.; Harry Baer, M.D.; State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company, Inc., and Vanderbilt University Hospital, Defendants-Appellees (88-5842), Southern Hills Hospital; and Hendersonville Community Hospital, Defendants-Appellants (88-5491).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry D. Woods, Irwin B. Venick (argued), Woods & Woods, Robert J. Walker, Bass, Berry & Sims, W. Warner McNeilly, Jr., Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Joseph G. Cummings, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, W. Harold Bigham, Gullet, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, Nashville, Tenn., Jack R. Bierig (argued), Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Kevin D. McDonald, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., Mary Frances Lyle, Bruce, Weathers, Dughman & Lyle, Ward DeWitt, Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants and plaintiffs-appellees.

Ward DeWitt, Andree K. Blumstein (argued), Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Robert S. Patterson, Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry, W. Warner McNeilly, Jr., John B. Carlson (argued), Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Nashville, Tenn., Richard D. Roskin, Chicago, Ill., Barbara J. Moss, W. Harold Bigham, Gullet, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, Nashville, Tenn., Jack R. Bierig (argued), William H. Baumgartner, Jr., Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., Robert J. Walker, R. Dale Grimes, Bass, Berry & Sims, Julia C. Morris, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Ames Davis (argued), Robert E. Boston, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, Tenn., Kevin D. McDonald, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., Charles L. Kown, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Before MARTIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 10, 1991.

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves two appeals arising out of an antitrust action brought by two nurse midwives, the obstetrician with whom they had affiliated, and three of their clients, against three Nashville hospitals, certain members of the medical staffs from two of the hospitals, another practicing obstetrician in Nashville, and a physician-controlled insurance company. Plaintiffs...

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