Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 22, 2019, in
Maderazo v. VHS San Antonio Partners, L.P., C.A. No. 06-CV-535
(available here), a case alleging that hospitals in San
Antonio conspired to suppress nurses' wages that had been
pending for nearly 13 years, the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Texas issued a decision denying Plaintiffs'
motion for class certification In doing so, the Court expressly
disagreed with a class certification decision issued in a nearly
identical case by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of Michigan in Cason-Merenda, et al. v. Detroit Medical Center,
2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131006 (E.D. Mich. Sept. 6, 2013).
Background
In 2006, five nearly identical antitrust class actions were
filed in different cities around the country alleging that
hospitals in each of those cities unlawfully conspired to fix nurse
wages below free market levels and agreed to unlawfully exchange
nurse wage information in a way that had the effect of
