Litton Sys., Inc. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding, in its analysis of whether the defendant MCO’s behavior was a restraint on trade, that the MCO defendant was the purchaser of services from the plaintiff physicians
• rejecting antitrust claims and contrasting a legitimate, independent medical cost insurer with a “ ‘sham’ organization seeking only to combine otherwise independent buyers in order to suppress their otherwise competitive instinct to bid up price”
• “Blue Shield obtained prices that reflected its market power_[I]f Blue Shield had simply purchased those services for itself, the prices paid, in and of themselves, would not have amounted to a violation of the antitrust laws.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).