North Colorado Medical Center, Inc. v. Committee on Anticompetitive Conduct

We granted certiorari to review the decision in Nicholas v. North Colorado Medical Center, Inc., 902 P.2d 462 (Colo.App.1995), in which the court of appeals held that the Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners committee on anticompetitive conduct was not bound to adopt federal antitrust law in defining unreasonable anticompetitive conduct and that the proximate cause analysis was appropriate for determining whether unreasonable anticompetitive conduct had occurred. We affirm.

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In August of 1989, the respondent, William John Nicholas, M.D., joined the partnership of the Greeley Medical…