Legal Opinion
Gambrel v. Kentucky Board of Dentistry
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 24, 1982No. 80-3336PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide whether certain private conduct by several Kentucky dentists, and the enforcement activities of the Kentucky Board of Dentistry, challenged by the plaintiffs as violative of federal antitrust laws, are compelled by Kentucky’s statutory scheme of regulation of the practice of dentistry, and therefore exempt from the antitrust laws under the “state action” doctrine of Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341, 63 S.Ct. 307, 87 L.Ed. 315 (1943) and its progeny.
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On May 16, 1978, a complaint was filed by James Gambrel, a dental technician, by two consumer…
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