October 12, 2021
A Seventh Circuit panel called out a Chicago federal judge for taking 74 days to issue a written opinion after initially dismissing an antitrust action, noting the court had condemned the same jurist in the past over her delayed explanatory ruling in a different case.
October 08, 2021
The Seventh Circuit on Friday declined to resurrect a physicians organization's claims that a nonprofit medical specialty boards group illegally colluded with hospitals and insurers to force doctors into paying more, finding that the suit "comes nowhere close to stating a claim."
September 15, 2021
An Illinois federal judge relied too heavily on her own opinions when she threw out an antitrust suit claiming a nonprofit that oversees a group of medical specialty certification boards colluded with hospitals and insurers to force doctors to pay for recertification programs, a physicians organization told the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday.
March 09, 2021
A physicians organization has asked the Seventh Circuit to undo what it called a district court's overreliance "on its own views" in tossing allegations that a nonprofit medical specialty boards group illegally colluded with hospitals and insurers to force doctors into paying for recertification programs for their specialties.