Opinion ID: 1159687
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Odom alleged injury to competition overall, as is necessary for Odom to have standing to sue FMH for antitrust violations.

Text: For a private litigant seeking treble damages to have standing, [a] plaintiff must show not only the fact of injury from the alleged violation, but that the injury alleged is `of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendants' acts unlawful.' KOS v. Alyeska Pipeline Serv. Co., 676 P.2d 1069, 1073-74 (Alaska 1983) (quoting Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc., 429 U.S. 477, 479, 97 S.Ct. 690, 50 L.Ed.2d 701 (1977)). Furthermore, the plaintiff must demonstrate that the defendant's conduct was intended to or did have some anticompetitive effect beyond his own loss of business or the market's loss of a competitor. KOS, 676 P.2d at 1074 (quoting California Computer Prods., Inc. v. International Bus. Machs. Corp., 613 F.2d 727, 732 (9th Cir.1979)). Paragraphs 7 and 135 of Odom's complaint allege facts sufficient to establish standing to sue under Alaska's antitrust statute. [5] In a similar case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a doctor proved injury to competition and had standing to sue for having his medical staff privileges terminated. See Pinhas v. Summit Health, Ltd., 880 F.2d 1108 (9th Cir.1989). The doctor alleged that the conspiracy was intended to boycott his attempts at providing patients with lower prices as a result of his ability to perform operations at a rate quicker than that of his competitors. Id. at 1116. The court held that Pinhas could prove injury to competition by showing that his preclusion ... substantially reduced total competition in the market. Id. Odom has alleged facts that, assuming them true, show that total competition of the Fairbanks market was reduced because of FMH's actions. If the trier of fact finds, as Odom's complaint alleges, that termination of Odom's staff privileges financially incapacitated him so that he could not continue with his plans to open FSC, the competitive market for anesthesiology services in Fairbanks was harmed by FMH's action.