The American Chiropractic Association sufferred a stunning blow in federal court Friday. United States District Judge James P. Jones ruled, "I find that there are no genuine issues of material fact remaining for trial and that Trigon is entitled to judgment in its favor. As stated in the opinion, summary judgment is a tool designed for "weeding out claims and defenses that have no factual basis." The lawsuit, began with the filing of a complaint by ACA on August 18, 2000. The Trigon lawsuit, and the ACA Medicare lawsuit, have cost the profession in excess of $5 million. Persons who wish to view the complete text of Judge Jones' opinion may use the link below. PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ABINGDON DIVISION AMERICAN CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION, ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. TRIGON HEALTHCARE, INC., ET AL., Defendants. ) ) Case No. 1:00CV00113 ) ) OPINION ) ) By: James P. Jones ) United States District Judge ) George P. McAndrews, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiffs; Howard Feller, McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, Virginia, for Defendants. American Chiropractic Association, Inc., Virginia Chiropractic Association, Inc., and certain individual doctors and patients of chiropractic medicine filed this action against health insurer Trigon Healthcare, Inc., and affiliated companies claiming anticompetitive activities harmful to chiropractic medicine. Following discovery, Trigon has moved for summary judgment. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, I find that there are no genuine issues of material fact remaining for trial and that Trigon is entitled to judgment in its favor. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: Received: from rly-xi04.mx.aol.com (rly-xi04.mail.aol.com [172.20.116.9]) by air- xi01.mail.aol.com (v93.8) with ESMTP id MAILINXI14-20933eada71039f; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:11:28 2000 Received: from fed1mtao07.cox.net (fed1mtao07.cox.net [68.6.19.124]) by rly- xi04.mx.aol.com (v93.8) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXI46-4de3eada6e4250; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:10:45 -0400 Received: from worldchiropracticalliance.org ([68.7.216.34]) by fed1mtao07.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030428221043.ZBTB1037.fed1mtao07.cox.net@worldchiropracticalliance. org> for ; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:10:43 -0400 Message-ID: <132422-220034128221049536@worldchiropracticalliance.org> X-EM-Version: 6, 0, 1, 0 X-EM-Registration: #00F06206106618006920 X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: reply@worldchiropracticalliance.org Errors-to: reply@worldchiropracticalliance.org Organization: World Chiropractic Alliance From: "Terry A Rondberg, DC" To: "Joel Margolies DC" Subject: BREAKING NEWS--ACA LOSES TRIGON CASE! Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:10:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable