Profession
U.S. Supreme Court will not review lawsuit against the Match
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Feb. 12, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court in January declined to review an antitrust lawsuit against the National Resident Matching Program, ending an effort that could have dismantled the 50-year-old system for placing residents.
Three residents filed the lawsuit, Jung et al. v. AAMC et al., in federal court in Washington, D.C., in 2002. They said the Match was anticompetitive because doctors must participate to gain admission to a residency program. They also said the program kept residents' wages artificially low, because participating institutions shared wage information.
In April 2004, President Bush signed a law that protected the matching program from antitrust litigation. Subsequently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit in two rulings in 2004 and 2005, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld those dismissals in 2006.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/02/12/prbf0212.htm.
