Stuart M. Gerson, a Member of the Firm in the Litigation and Health Care and Life Sciences practices, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in MobiHealthNews, in “Why Texas Wants Teladoc’s Antitrust Suit Thrown Out,” by Jonah Comstock.
Following is an excerpt:
“A long time ago, the courts crafted the so-called state actor defense, which tolerates what otherwise would be anticompetitive activity in the name of some dedicated state police power interest — generally health, welfare, safety of the population,” Stuart Gerson, a member of Epstein Becker Green and former acting Attorney General of the United States, told MobiHealthNews in an interview in March. “It’s easy to declare that if you’re a board. But the nut of the NCDB case is, in order to avail themselves of the state action defense, the board not only has to be duly constituted, but the activity that it is involved in needs to be directed by the state. There has to be what’s called ‘active supervision.’ And that’s what the Supreme Court made clear.”
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iHealthBeat, 9/29/2015