AMA Found Guilty of Antitrust Conspiracy against Chiropractors

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"The judge singled out the AMA in her ruling for its repeated refusal to acknowledge its wrongdoing and said the only way to correct the wrong was to enter a formal court order against the defendants.

''I conclude that an injunction is necessary in this case,'' Getzendanner wrote. ''There are lingering effects of the conspiracy; the AMA has never acknowledged the lawlessness of its past conduct and in fact to this day maintains that it has always been in compliance with the antitrust laws; there has never been an affirmative statement by the AMA that it is ethical to associate with chiropractors.''"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-08-29-8703050618-story.html

"The American Medical Association led an effort to destroy the chiropractic profession by depriving its practitioners of association with medical doctors and calling them ″unscientific cultists″ or worse, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Susan Getzendanner described the conspiracy as ″systematic, long-term wrongdoing and the long-term intent to destroy a licensed profession″ in ruling late Thursday on a 1976 antitrust lawsuit.

Ms. Getzendanner’s decision said the nation’s largest physicians’ group spearheaded a physicians’ boycott designed ″to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession.″"
https://apnews.com/article/e4f9f342f302528cfbebb81e1e2224f2

U.S. Judge Finds Medical Group Conspired Against Chiropractors
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/29/us/us-judge-finds-medical-group-conspired-against-chiropractors.html

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