· 11/23/1987
Beth Israel Hospital Ass'n v. Board of Registration in Medicine
Citations
- 515 N.E.2d 574
- 401 Mass. 172
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “reading the exception to the [medical peer review] privilege narrowly is consistent with our cases where we have refused to add to the listed exceptions to a given statutory privilege”
- “regulation may be authorized though not traceable to specific statutory language, [and] powers granted include those reasonably implied”
- the peer review privilege is “designed to foster aggressive critiquing of medical care by the provider’s peers”
- “regulation may be authorized though not traceable to specific statutory language, [and] powers granted include those reasonably implied”
- “[A]gencies have leeway in interpreting statutes they enforce, and . . . specific statutory authority does not bar consistent action under general authority”
- “all presumptions are in favor of the validity of agency action . . . [and] agencies have leeway in interpreting statutes they enforce”
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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Abrams, Lynch
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