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· 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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