The court affirmed a district court’s approval of a $2.67 billion class action settlement of an antitrust multi-district litigation brought against Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and its local member plans alleging Sherman Act violations in restrictions on the member plans’ ability to compete. In re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litig. MDL 2406, 2023…
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Full Court Nixes Appeal of Antitrust Immunity Ruling
Sitting en banc, the Eleventh Circuit unanimously held in SmileDirectClub, LLC v. Battle, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 21393 (11th Cir. July 20, 2021), that an interlocutory appeal may not be taken under the collateral order doctrine from the denial of the state-action antitrust immunity conferred by Parker v. Brown, 317 U.S. 341 (1943). The case…