Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Indiana Federation of Dentists
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 2, 1986No. 84-1809PublishedCited by 609 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
This case concerns commercial relations among certain Indiana dentists, their patients, and the patients’ dental health care insurers. The question presented is whether the Federal Trade Commission correctly concluded that a conspiracy among dentists to refuse to submit x rays to dental insurers for use in benefits determinations constituted an “unfair method of competition” in violation of §5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 38 Stat. 719, as amended, 15 U. S. C. §45 (1982 ed. and Supp. II).
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Since the 1970’s, dental health insurers, responding to the demands of their policyholders, have…
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