Bello v. South Shore Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a hospital was not a state actor even though it was licensed and regulated by the state and received state and federal funding
• holding that physicians could not sue hospital for violating bylaws in refusing to grant staff privileges; ''[T]he proper party to enforce the by-laws, aside from a member of the corporation, is the Attorney General in the exercise of his supervisory power over public charities.”
• “we think it undesirable for the Massachusetts courts to review the staffing decisions of private hospitals” absent statutory discrimination
• for proposition that persons who are parties to a contract have standing to enforce it or to obtain a declaration of their rights under it
• “The word ‘or’ is given a disjunctive meaning unless the context and the main purpose of all the words demand otherwise,” quoting Eastern Mass. St. Ry. v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth., 350 Mass. 340, 343 [1966]
• non-profit hospital is a “facility” under §70E

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).