Medical Association of Georgia v. WellPoint, Inc.

(1) Whether a settlement agreement in a class action may waive all class members" rights to pursue statutory remedies for the defendant's future violations of the federal antitrust laws, as a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held, or whether such a waiver is void because it violates the antitrust laws or public policy, as the Third, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits have held, and as this Court stated in dicta in Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant; and (2) whether a federal antitrust cause of action can be asserted before the occurrence of the acts and injuries from which the cause of action arises, as a divided panel of the Eleventh Circuit held, or whether the cause of action accrues when the plaintiff is injured, as this Court held in Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp. and Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.