DeGregorio v. American Board of Internal Medicine

OPINION

BARRY, District Judge.

In late 1992, plaintiff Bart Michael DeGre-gorio, M.D., filed a complaint against defendant American Board of Internal Medicine alleging that the Board’s procedure, effective as of 1990, of issuing time-limited Board certifications to be followed every ten years by recertification in the various specialties of medicine constitutes a violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983; 1 a breach of fiduciary duty owed by the Board; a conspiracy in restraint of trade, in violation of the Sherman Act; a conspiracy in restraint of trade, in violation of New Jersey’s Antitrust Act; and a…