Outpatient employees, medical centers to move for judgment in US no-poach case
( November 2, 2026, 18:49 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Former outpatient medical center employees told a US judge they intend to move for summary judgment in their antitrust case alleging Surgical Care Affiliates, United Surgical Partners and DaVita engaged in illegal no-poach agreements, wage fixing and anticompetitive information-sharing. The plaintiffs intend to move for judgment regarding an affirmative defense that the challenged no-poach agreements were ancillary to legitimate business collaborations, as pled by DaVita and Surgical Care Affiliates, the status report filed in the Northern District of Illinois said. Defendants cannot bear the burden of proof of showing that the restriction in question is both subordinate to a legitimate business collaboration among the defendant and reasonably necessary to achieve a procompetitive objective, the plaintiffs said.See attached document: ...
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