Health Antitrust Advisory: FTC Rules Evanston Northwestern Merger Violated Antitrust Law
8/8/2007
Revised Remedy Orders Separate Contracting, Not Divestiture of Highland Park Hospital
After more than three years of litigation, the Federal Trade Commission issued an opinion and order on August 2, 2007, upholding the October 2005 conclusions of an administrative law judge ('ALJ'), that the merger violated Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18.