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LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY SUES AVMA FOR PREVENTING NEW VETERINARIAN'S COLLEGES
Jun. 23, 2025
Source: Brakke Consulting
HARROGATE, Tenn -- Lincoln Memorial University, home of the Richard A. Gillespie College of Veterinary Medicine, has sued the American Veterinary Medical Association to challenge its anticompetitive accreditation practices that illegally restrict the number of accredited schools of veterinary medicine.
The suit, filed June 18, 2025, asserts that the AVMA is improperly using its monopoly power, through its Council on Education, to restrict the accreditation of new and existing veterinary schools by requiring them to meet arbitrary, unreasonable, and impossible-to-meet requirements entirely unrelated to the quality of education necessary to graduate day-one-ready veterinarians.
Lincoln Memorial University seeks no money damages from its lawsuit, only an injunction to stop the AVMA from continuing to implement its accreditation standards in an unreasonable and anticompetitive manner.
In addition, Lincoln Memorial University requests that the Court implement the complete and total separation of the veterinary accrediting body (the AVMA Council on Education) from the trade association (the AVMA) in which it operates. Lincoln Memorial University's College of Veterinary Medicine was placed on probationary accreditation and Lincoln Memorial's planned introduction of a second veterinary medicine campus in Orange Park, Florida, near Jacksonville, is facing impending accreditation denial.
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