Hospitals

FTC Enforcement, Mergers and Acquisitions

(Wolters Kluwer)/

The FTC and State of Pennsylvania on February 28 moved to block the proposed merger of Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, two leading providers of inpatient general acute care hospital services and inpatient acute rehabilitation services in the Philadelphia area. The FTC issued an administrative complaint alleging that the proposed merger would reduce…

Antitrust Exemptions & Immunity, FTC Enforcement, Mergers and Acquisitions

(Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)/ /1 Comment

The next Term may see significant SCOTUS consideration of the state action immunity, the first such case since 1992. The decision below in the defendants’ favor was quite plainly wrong, and so it might also become only the second antitrust case in twenty years in which the Court has ruled for a plaintiff.  That would…