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The Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division Court (the “Court”) granted defendants’ motion to dismiss, finding that a plaintiff must adequately identify both the commercial market and the defendant’s detrimental effect on the market in order to succeed in an antitrust claim. The court also found that physicians do not have a private cause of action under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) and must first file a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in order to bring a Title VII claim to court.