United States Dental Institute v. American Association of Orthodontists

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DECKER, District Judge.

The United States Dental Institute (“USDI”), a private, for-profit, post-secondary educational institution, and ten individual general practitioner dentists have filed this antitrust action against two professional organizations, the American Association of Orthodontists (“AAO”) and the American Dental Association (“ADA”), and twenty-five individual defendants, twenty-three of whom are officials of those organizations. 1 In this three-count complaint, plaintiffs seek injunctive and déelaratory relief and treble damages. Count I is a claim by USDI…