Ralph Peterson v. Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, et al.

Federal Antitrust and Due Process Protections Whether a physician who suffers network exclusion, contract loss, and practice-sale interference after exposing an unlawful Medi-Cal, kickback and marketdomination scheme may seek federal relief under continuing-violation and concealment doctrines that toll the statute of limitations for those claims.

Anti-SLAPP and State Court Procedure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying California’s anti-SLAPP statute, Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 425.16, to strike all state-law claims without conducting the claim by claim analysis required by Baral v. Schnitt, 1 Cal. 5th 376 (2016), and Bonni v. St. Joseph Health System, 11 Cal. 5th 995 (2021), thereby extending anti-SLAPP protection to non-petitioning conduct.

Immunity and Jurisdictional Dismissal Whether the Ninth Circuit misapplied Mishler v. Clift, 191 F.3d 998 (9th Cir. 1999), by extending absolute quasi-judicial immunity to Medical Board members for ministerial acts—false communications to insurers made long after proceedings ended—and erred in ordering dismissal with prejudice of state-law contract claims barred by the Eleventh Amendment, contrary to Freeman v. Oakland Unified School District, 179 F.3d 846 (9th Cir. 1999)