Since April, the Federal Trade Commission has been fighting to block Phoebe Putney Health Systems from acquiring a rival hospital in southwest Georgia, on the grounds that the merger would create a monopoly on hospital care in the region. On Friday the Eleventh Circuit agreed that the deal was anticompetitive, but the panel also agreed with PPHS's lawyers at Baker & McKenzie and Weil Gotshal that the courts can't do anything to stop it.

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