Federal Courts Reject Challenges to Pennsylvania Hospital Merger

On December 8, 2020, a federal district court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied a request from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) ...

Federal court rejects FTC challenge to health system merger

A federal district court in Pennsylvania rejected a legal challenge by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the proposed merger of ...

Pennsylvania drops legal challenge to health system merger

Pennsylvania has dropped its legal challenge to the proposed merger of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network.

Federal Court Rejects FTC Challenge to Hospital Merger ... - JD Supra

After a six-day evidentiary hearing, the district court denied the Government's request for a preliminary injunction, holding that the ...

Federal Court Rejects FTC Challenge to Hospital Merger in ...

On December 8, 2020, a federal court in Pennsylvania rejected a challenge by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of Pennsylvania to block a ...

FTC Abandons Appeal of Philadelphia Hospital Merger, Allowing ...

... district court ruling rejecting the Federal ... courts had rejected challenges to hospital mergers in in Chicago and central Pennsylvania.

E.D. of Pa. Rejects FTC's Challenge Philadelphia Area Hospital ...

On December 8, 2020, Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s ...

Antitrust Lessons from the FTC's Failed Bid to Halt the Jefferson ...

On December 8, 2020, a Pennsylvania federal district court rejected the FTC's claim and refused to stop the merger. The district court's ...

"Wheels Fall Off" FTC's Latest Hospital Merger Challenge | Insights

In the FTC's only recent loss, the court in 2020 refused to enjoin the merger of two Philadelphia-area hospitals, finding that the FTC's ...

Court rejects FTC bid to block 17-hospital merger in Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania federal court on Dec. 8 rejected the Federal Trade Commission's challenge to a merger between Philadelphia-based Jefferson ...

Eastern District Of Pennsylvania Allows Hospital Merger To Proceed

On December 8, 2020, the Court denied the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction. Two days later, the FTC filed an emergency motion for an ...

FTC's Hospital Merger Win Streak Ends - Davis Wright Tremaine

The Commission vote to voluntarily dismiss its appeal to the 3rd Circuit of the district court decision declining to preliminarily enjoin the ...

FTC's Hospital Merger Challenges Hit Speedbump in Philadelphia

This alert examines a Philadelphia US district court decision that denied the FTC's and Pennsylvania Attorney General's request to ...

Federal Trade Commission's Pennsylvania Hospital Challenge ...

A Federal Appeals Court has sided with the FTC and preliminarily blocked the proposed merger of the largest hospitals in the Harrisburg, ...

In Philly, the FTC Ends Its Jefferson-Einstein Merger Challenge and ...

On December 8, 2020, Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert, denied the injunction request and found that ...

Court Rejects FTC Challenge To Philly Hospital Merger - Law360

A Pennsylvania federal court on Tuesday rejected a bid from the Federal Trade Commission and the state to block a $599 million merger ...

Court Denies FTC Request to Block Pa. Hospital Merger

A federal court May 9 refused to block a proposed merger of two hospitals ... hospital merger challenges by the FTC and first court order ...

District Court Blocks FTC & PA AG Challenge | McDermott

In the two previous hospital merger challenges that were litigated, the relevant geographic market was uncontested. Not so here. The ...

Federal Trade Commission Challenge to Northern Philadelphia ...

Notably, this is not the first time in recent years that the FTC has failed at the trial court level to enjoin a hospital merger. In fact, the ...

FTC v. Penn State Hershey Medical Center - Harvard Law Review |

Since the early 1990s, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has vigorously pursued litigation in federal courts to challenge hospital mergers it views as ...