United States Ninth Circuit

In an action alleging a conspiracy to fix prices and to boycott their plan in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1, and Hawaii law, the absence of any agreement or threat to boycott plaintiffs, or attempt to fix prices, the joint efforts of defendants to negotiate the terms of plaintiffs' provider agreement caused no antitrust injury under state or federal law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/05/2003
• Decided 06/06/2003
• Published 06/06/2003

Judges

• Before GOODWIN, RYMER, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John I. Alioto and Lisa Kimmel, Alioto & Alioto, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Jack R. Bierig, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for the amicus.


• For Appellees:
  
• M. Laurence Popofsky, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees Hawaii Medical Association and Leonard Howard, M.D., Rafael G. Del Castillo, Honolulu, HI, for the defendants-appellees Hawaii Coalition for Health, Arleen Jouxson-Meyers, M.D., and Peter Locatelli, M.D., J. Thomas Rosch, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees Queen's Physician Group, Lockwood Young, M.D., and John Drouilhet, M.D.