California Court of Appeal
Am. Bd. of Cosmetic Surgery, Inc. v. Med. Bd. of California, C054718
In a case involving petitioner's efforts to gain specialty board approval by respondent so that physicians certified by petitioner may advertise themselves as board certified in "Cosmetic Surgery," grant of a petition for writ of mandate ordering respondent to approve petitioner's application is reversed where respondent did not abuse its discretion in denying the application as its reasons were rationally related to the regulatory requirements and were supported by ample evidence.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/28/2008
- Published 04/28/2008
Judges
- BLEASE, Acting P.J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Carlos Ramirez, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jose Guerrero, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Kerry Weisel, Jane Zack Simon, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Appellants., Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Rita Gunasekaran, J. Alan Warfield, Los Angeles; Johnson & Bell, William K. McVisk, for American Board of Medical Specialties as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Kessenick Phillips & Gamma, Douglas Scott Free, for California Society of Plastic Surgeons as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Seyfarth Shaw, Kurt A. Kappes, Robert B. Milligan, Sacramento, for American Society of Plastic Surgeons as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants., Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Robert J. Sullivan, John T. Kennedy, Sacramento; Gaido & Fintzen, Peter A. Gaido and Scott Fintzen for Plaintiff and Respondent.