9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Jun. 5, 2024
Sutter Health's antitrust victory overturned by 9th Circuit panel
The panel ruled that U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel D. Beeler of San Francisco failed to instruct the jury to determine whether Sutter's policies were motivated by an anticompetitive purpose and incorrectly excluded any evidence before 2006.
A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday reversed a major defense win for health care giant Sutter Health in an antitrust class action because of the trial judge's "prejudicial" jury instructions and exclusion of key evidence.
9th Circuit Judge Lucy H. Koh, an appointee of President Joe Biden, granted a new trial after ruling that U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel D. Beeler of San Francisco failed to instruct the jury to determine whether Sutter's ...
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