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Supreme Court Limits Availability of State Action Immunity from Federal Antitrust Liability

by Jeffrey W. Brennan, Ashley M. Fischer, David Marx, Jr., Stephen Wu and Christine G. Devlin

The Supreme Court decision in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., makes clear that state action immunity from federal antitrust laws is disfavored, and local governmental, quasi-public and private entities can only qualify for the immunity under certain specific conditions.

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Phoebe Putney Hospital Merger Challenge

by Jeffrey Brennan, Ashley Fischer, David Marx and Carrie Amezcua

In oral argument in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Supreme Court Justices focused on whether the state legislature clearly articulated a state policy to displace competition with regulation, in a case challenging the application of the state action doctrine to a hospital merger to monopoly.

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