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...Supreme Court opens the household trash bag to warrantless police searches. -- And the Justices give doctors the antitrust jitters...
...Astoria, Ore., on the grounds of substandard patient care. Patrick resigned and sued the doctors in a rival practice, who had initiated and participated in the proceedings against him. His claim: conspiracy to eliminate a competitor. Though the law partly protects physicians who serve on peer-review panels from antitrust actions, the court ruled 8 to 0 that this protection did not apply here; it upheld a lower-court award of $2.2 million in damages to Dr. Patrick...
...decision prompted loud groans from the American Medical Association, which saw it as a threat to peer review. Though the A.M.A. admits the procedure may have gone awry in Patrick's case, it would have preferred a resolution at the state level rather than through federal antitrust laws. Antitrust damages are especially painful because they come out of a doctor's own pocket, notes A.M.A. General Counsel Kirk Johnson. "Antitrust is the atom bomb of lawsuits...
Many publishers are ready to compete with Whittle, but they are incensed by his attempt to exclude their magazines. Several are threatening to sue. "Once Whittle ties up too many doctors, then he chokes the marketplace and can be challenged under the antitrust laws," says Attorney John Hadlock, who represents Gruner + Jahr. But Whittle insists that he is planning to enter only a small percentage of the country's more than 200,000 medical waiting rooms and dismisses the threats as "legal sword rattling...
Another concern is Macy's potential antitrust problems. In Atlanta, Macy's and Rich's, a Federated chain, control almost all the department-store business. In New York City, Macy's stores and Federated's Abraham & Straus and Bloomingdale's are the top three operations...