9th Circuit upholds ruling against St. Luke's (ID) in antitrust case

St. Luke's Health System's fight to hang on to a big Nampa medical practice likely just ended in defeat. St. Luke's isn't saying what it will do next on the legal front, but the Boise health system's odds for success are long now that a federal appeals court has upheld U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill's ruling in an antitrust case. Winmill ruled in January 2014, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, that St. Luke's Health System violated federal antitrust laws by taking over a private practice that would have given it a stranglehold on Nampa's adult primary-care market.