Legal Opinion
Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 28, 1979No. 77-952PublishedCited by 566 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The respondents, 18 owners of independent pharmacies in San Antonio, Tex., brought an antitrust action in a Federal District Court against the petitioners, Group Life and Health Insurance Co., known as Blue Shield of Texas (Blue Shield), and three pharmacies also doing business in San Antonio. The complaint alleged that the petitioners had violated § 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U. S. C. § 1, by entering agreements to fix the retail prices of drugs and pharmaceuticals, and that the activities of the petitioners had caused Blue Shield’s policyholders not to deal with certain of the respondents,…
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