Question

Using the Health Care page of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division website, locate three antitrust law cases. Write a 500-750 word analysis of each case that describes the following:
1. A brief overview of the particulars of the case.
2. The impact of the case on the law and powerbrokers.
3. Concerns regarding the case in the role of a health care leader.

Answer 1

Answer:

CASE 1:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  v.  A&L MAYER ASSOCIATES, INC.

Beginning at least as early as January 1990 and

continuing thereafter to at least April 1995, the exact dates

being unknown to the United States, defendant Mayer Associates

and co-conspirators entered into and participated in a

combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition

for the sale of tampico fiber in the United States in

unreasonable restraint of interstate and foreign trade and

commerce.

CASE 2:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   v.

ACE SCHIFFLI EMBROIDERY CO., INC

ACTION is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, with its principal place of business in Ontario, California.  ACTION manufactured embroidered insignia which it sold to the Army Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) for resale to United States military personnel. Various individuals and companies, participated as co-conspirators in the offense charged herein and performed acts and made statements in furtherance thereof.

CASE 3:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  v.  RAFAEL GONGORA ADAME

From in or about December 2001 and continuing to in or about May 2003, in the Southern District of Texas, and within the jurisdiction of the Court, defendant RAFAEL GONGORA ADAME having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money and property from USAC, by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, well knowing at the time that said pretenses, representations, and promises would be and were false and fraudulent when made, and for the purpose of executing the scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money and property, did knowingly cause to be transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate commerce, that is from inside the State of Texas to outside the State of Texas, certain writings, signs, signals and sounds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.