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- Title: Hospital Building Co. v. Trustees Rex Hospital Et Al.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 24, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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This is a suit brought under ?? 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, as amended, 15 U.S.C. ?? 1-2. Petitioner has alleged that respondents are engaged in an unlawful conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce in the furnishing of medical and surgical hospital services, and that they are attempting to monopolize the hospital business in the Raleigh, N.C., metropolitan area. The District Court dismissed petitioners amended complaint on the pleadings, finding that petitioner had not alleged a sufficient nexus between the alleged violations of the Sherman Act and interstate commerce. The Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, affirmed the judgment of the District Court, holding that the provision of hospital services is only a "local" activity, 511 F.2d 678, 682 (1975), and that the amended complaint did not adequately allege a "substantial effect" id., at 684, on interstate commerce. We granted certiorari, 423 U.S. 820 (1975), and now reverse. We hold that the amended complaint, fairly