Legal Opinion

Pennsylvania Dental Ass'n v. Medical Service Ass'n of Pennsylvania

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided October 1, 1984No. 84-5004PublishedCited by 86 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Chief Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide whether Blue Shield’s prepaid dental service program in Pennsylvania violates the antitrust laws. Several Pennsylvania dental associations and individual dentists appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their antitrust and state law claims brought against the Medical Service Association of Pennsylvania, doing business as Pennsylvania Blue *252Shield.1 Appellants argue that Blue Shield engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy and a group boycott in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, attempted to monopolize…

2Cases cited42 opinions

  1. Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. United States v. Grinnell Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
  5. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Appts. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910

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3Cited by86 opinions

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