Court Opinion

ID: 9467405
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:48:00.112058+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:40:19.931079
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McKAY, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the result:
“In the Sherman Act, Congress has been taken to have exercised to the fullest its power over commerce.” L. Sullivan, Antitrust 709 (1977). I do not believe that our opinion in Wolf v. Jane Phillips Episcopal-Memorial Medical Center, 513 F.2d 684 (10th Cir. 1975), is consistent with either that congressional purpose or recent Supreme Court pronouncements. At this late date, we can no longer reasonably assert that the “business of practicing medicine and furnishing medical services is wholly intrastate” in character. 513 F.2d at 687 n.l, 688.1 Crane has alleged, with all the particularity we should require before discovery has begun, various antitrust violations including a group boycott. He has also alleged effects on various aspects of interstate commerce, including the purchase of medical supplies. Under the “affecting commerce” test,
it is not the quantitative substantiality of the impact on the flow of commerce that is critical . . .; if a local activity has
in a practical sense a significant impact on competition in commerce and if the commerce so affected is substantial in amount, the [Sherman] Act applies to the local activity .
L. Sullivan, Antitrust 710 (1977). I believe that Crane’s allegations are sufficient to withstand a pre-discovery Rule 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss.
Because I agree with the majority that it is the responsibility of the court sitting en banc to reconsider the Wolf doctrine, I concur in the result. This panel is bound by Wolf unless or until the court reconsiders the case en banc.
Before SETH, Chief Judge, and HOLLOWAY, McWilliams, barrett, doyle, McKAY, LOGAN and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.

. We could perhaps distinguish Wolf on certain narrow grounds. I agree with the majority, however, that, if Wolf is allowed to stand, its spirit precludes a finding of jurisdiction in this case.