Bhan v. Nme Hospitals, Inc.

929 F.2d 1404 59 USLW 2634 , 59 USLW 2647 , 1991-1 Trade Cases 69,395, 19 Fed.R.Serv.3d 644 Vinod C. BHAN, C.R.N.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NME HOSPITALS, INC., a Delaware Corp., dba: Manteca Hospital, National Medical Enterprises, Inc., a Nevada Corp., California Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc., a California Corp., John E. Menaugh, Yong Suk, M.D., Defendants-Appellees. Nos. 87-2727, 87-2951. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 11, 1990. Decided March 25, 1991. Timothy E. Morgan, San Francisco, Cal., H.E. Christian Peeples, Oakland, Cal., Michael I. Spiegel, Spiegel, Liao & Kagay, and Stephen Kaus, Kaus & Kerr, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant. Robert Fabrikant, McKenna & Cuneo, Washington, D.C., and James J. Banks, Damrell, Damrell & Nelson, Michael C. Normoyle, Normoyle & Newman, Modesto, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before SNEED, SCHROEDER and CANBY, Circuit Judges. SNEED, Circuit Judge: 1 This is an antitrust case concerning the exclusion of a class of nonphysician anesthesia providers from a hospital. Plaintiff Vinod…