Antitrust

The antitrust docket of the Eleventh Circuit last year mirrored the general state of antitrust law in several respects. It included only five full blown decisions, three involved health care, and defendants had won below in all five cases. On the other hand, the Eleventh Circuit went against the antitrust grain in 1990 by finding for plaintiffs in three of its five opinions and again refusing to be mesmerized by contemporary economic arguments. Moreover, a few of the Eleventh Circuit's specific antitrust holdings rendered last term might fairly be questioned.

This Article discusses each of the Eleventh Circuit's 1990 antitrust decisions. As will be shown, this output seems unlikely to do much to raise the court's national antitrust profile.