Hospitals Defeat FTC Merger Injunction Request With a Version of ...

In a recent hospital merger challenge brought by the FTC, defendants successfully asserted a version of the “failing firm” defense to avoid ...

Chris Wilson on LinkedIn: Hospitals Defeat FTC Merger Injunction ...

Attached please find our analysis of the recent FTC v. Novant decision, in which defendants successfully invoked a weakened competitor/failing firm defense.

Could a District Court ruling against the FTC in a hospital merger ...

In early June, Federal Judge Kenneth Bell ruled twice against the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction, citing the failing firm ...

FTC Notches Another Win Against Regional Healthcare ...

... request for a preliminary injunction, the American Economic ... The FTC sued to block Novant's acquisition of two CHS hospitals in ...

District Court Denies Most Recent FTC Attempt to Stop Novant/CHS ...

We reported last week on the U.S. District Court's denial of an FTC request for a preliminary injunction to block Novant Health's “Novant) ...

Court strikes down FTC's latest attempt to block Novant-CHS deal

However, Bell denied the FTC's latest request for a preliminary injunction, again citing the risk of hospital closures. “If Novant is not ...

Judge Denies FTC's Request to Enjoin Sale of Two Hospitals in ...

Last week, a federal judge in North Carolina declined to preliminarily enjoin Novant Health, Inc.'s (“Novant”) acquisition of two hospitals ...

Novant gives up $320M hospital buy after FTC's appeals court win

The injunction would keep the health systems from consummating their deal until the conclusion of an appeal process that could span over two ...

Feds seek official end to case pitting FTC against Novant Health

A June 18 injunction from a split 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals panel stopped “Novant and CHS from consummating Novant's planned acquisition ...

U.S. District Court For The Western District Of North Carolina Denies ...

(“CHS”). The FTC's complaint and request for preliminary injunction, filed in March 2024 pending an agency administrative proceeding, alleged ...

FTC Takes Action to Block Hospital Mergers - Antitrust Advocate

16-2492 (7th Cir. Oct. 31), reversed district court decisions denying FTC-filed motions for preliminary injunctions, effectively blocking ...

FTC maintains strong hospital merger record after Novant/CHS case

The FTC sued to block the proposal in December 2015, alleging the combined system would control 60% of the inpatient hospital services in ...

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

1 A few years ago when the FTC initially lost two preliminary injunction proceedings in hospital merger cases at the district court level, the ...

Locke Lord QuickStudy: District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction ...

Jones III denied a motion by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ... Injunction in FTC Challenge to Merger of Pennsylvania Hospitals. By ...

FTC Successfully Blocks Hackensack Meridian Merger with Big Win ...

The district court agreed with the FTC and issued a preliminary injunction in August 2021. For detailed analysis of the FTC challenge and ...

Chicago-Area Hospitals Abandon Fight to Save Merger from FTC ...

Two Chicago-area hospitals end their fight with the Federal Trade Commission to merge after a U.S. district court preliminarily enjoined the ...

THE CONTINUING SAGA OF HOSPITAL MERGER ENFORCEMENT

cluded “19 hospitals within a 65 minute drive of Harrisburg.”179. The district court denied the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction,.

Federal Appeals Court officially ends FTC fight with Novant over ...

A two-sentence court order Wednesday officially ended the Federal Trade Commission's legal battle against Novant Health over the purchase of ...

Case: 21-2603 Document: 79 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/29/2021

Section 13(b) of the FTC Act empowers the Commission to seek a preliminary injunction blocking a merger it believes violates the Clayton Act,.

Is the End Nigh? What Jefferson / Einstein Means for the FTC's ...

However, on December 8, 2020, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the agency's request for a preliminary ...