California Court of Appeal

In declaratory relief action challenging requirement that surgical clinic obtain a license since non-owner physicians will use it, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where Health and Safety Code section 1204(b)(1) excludes physician owned and operated surgical clinics from licensing by the Department of Health Services, leaving them, when using general anesthesia, to accreditation and regulation by the Medical Board.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/19/2007
• Published 09/19/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Bill Lockyer, Attorney Generals, Karen S. Schwartz, Acting Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas R. Yanger, Teresa Stinson, Assistant Attorney Generals, Susan E. Slager, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Frank S. Furtek, Margarita Altamirano, Supervising Deputy Attorney Generals, Roy S. Liebman, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Appellants., Greenberg Traurig, Livingston & Mattesich Law Corporation, Gene Livingston, Kathryn Doi, Daniel M. Fuchs, Terry German;  Katten Muchin Rosenman, Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman, Laurence G. Solov, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Catherine I. Hanson, San Francisco, for California Medical Association, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.