Bartley v. Eastern Maine Medical Center

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that hospital did not breach its contract when the bylaws stated that the staff assumed its responsibilities subject to the authority of the board
• stating that a contract must be construed viewing it as a whole
• reading a physician’s rights under medical staff bylaws through the lens of the hospital’s corporate bylaws, and concluding “[i]t is clear from these bylaw provisions that the board of trustees . . . has the authority to manage all the affairs of the hospital”
• “We agree ... that the bylaws of a private medical center may constitute an enforceable contract between the medical center and its staff physicians.”
• the bylaws of a private medical center may constitute an enforceable con- , tract between the medical center and its staff physicians
• “The granting of privileges signifies that a doctor is qualified to practice at the hospital. . . . The right to exercise the privileges, however, is a separate matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).