St. George's School of Medicine v. Department of Registration & Education of Illinois

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

DUFF, District Judge.

Plaintiff St. George’s School of Medicine (“St. George’s”), is a foreign medical school, and the individual plaintiffs are graduates of St. George’s. They sue, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and federal antitrust law, the Department of Registration and Education of the State of Illinois (“Department”), its Director Gary L. Clayton and the individual members of the Medical Practice Examining Committee (“Committee”) for refusing a medical license to graduates of St. George’s.

Defendants invoke the abstention doctrine and argue that this court should not…