Sidibe

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division DJENEBA SIDIBE, et al., Case No. 12-cv-04854-LB

Plaintiffs, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

CERTIFY CLASS UNDER RULE

v. 23(B)(3) AND DENYING MOTION FOR

SANCTIONS

SUTTER HEALTH, Re: ECF Nos. 719, 735, and 747 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION In this putative class action, the plaintiffs — four individuals who paid for health insurance and two small companies who paid for health insurance for their employees — sued Sutter Health for its allegedly anticompetitive practices, in violation of the federal Sherman Antitrust Act, the California Cartwright Act, and the California Unfair Competition Law.1 The plaintiffs claim that Sutter uses its considerable market power in seven Northern California markets (the tying markets, where it is the only or dominant hospital) to force five health plans in four other geographic markets (the tied markets) to accept…