Legal Opinion
Mercatus Group, LLC v. Lake Forest Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 26, 2011No. 10-1665PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
The First Amendment of the Constitution states that Congress shall make no law abridging the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, federal antitrust laws have been interpreted to protect these First Amendment rights by immunizing petitioning activity from liability. In this appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment for defendant-appellee Lake Forest Hospital, we must decide whether that doctrine shelters from antitrust liability one competitor’s…
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