Jackson, Tennessee Hospital Co. v. West Tennessee Healthcare, Inc.

OPINION

BOGGS, Chief Judge.

Although this is an antitrust case, it turns on the proper interpretation of a Tennessee statute. The plaintiff alleges that the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District (the “Hospital District”), which is a political subdivision of the state of Tennessee, and the other defendants have committed antitrust violations. The district court dismissed the suit, finding that the state action doctrine protects the defendants from antitrust liability. The state action doctrine protects subdivisions of a state' government from antitrust liability when there is a…