antitrust-law

QUESTION PRESENTED This petition concerns the studied, repeated defiance over the past nine years by the United States Court of Appeals for First Circuit of this Court’s 2015 ruling in North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC, 574 U.S. 494 (2015) by repeatedly upholding judicial grants of sovereign and quasi-judicial immunity to market participants on the state’s medical licensing board with no consideration for this Court’s test for state action immunity, even where, as here, the defendant market actors are sued under the Sherman Act. The question presented is, does the rule of Dental Examiners extend to physician licensing boards?