Legal Opinion
United States v. Mercy Health Services
District Court, N.D. Iowa
Decided October 27, 1995No. C94-1023PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and ORDER
MELLOY, Chief Judge.
The United States has brought this action under the antitrust laws. The defendants, Mercy Health Services and Finley Tri-States Health Group, Inc. own Mercy Health Center (Mercy) and Finley Hospital (Finley), respectively. Mercy and Finley are the only two general acute care hospitals in Dubuque, Iowa. The two hospitals have agreed to form a partnership, Dubuque Regional Health Services (DRHS), which all parties acknowledge constitutes a merger for purposes of antitrust analysis. On June 10, 1994, the government filed a complaint seeking injunctive relief…
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