United States Ninth Circuit

Letter from one defendant doctor opposing plaintiff doctor's application to perform Caesarian-sections is not sufficient direct evidence of a conspiracy with other defendant doctors or hospital under the Sherman Anti-Trust act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2000
• Decided 01/08/2001
• Published 01/08/2001

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and NOONAN and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara J. Hensleigh, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Thomas Rosch, San Francisco, California, for defendants-appellees Sonora Community Hospital, Lawrence Brunel, M.D., Louis Erich, M.D., and Sonora Medical Group, Inc., Glenn J. Holder, Fresno, California, for defendant-appellee Donovan Teel, M.D.