Carter-Shields, MD v. Alton Health Inst.

How courts have described this case

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• “The Medical Practice Act regulat[es] medical professionals in order to protect the public welfare ***.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• “[T]he proscription against the corporate practice of medicine is, at root, animated by the public policy purpose of safeguarding the public health and welfare by protecting the physician-patient relationship from lay interference with the physician’s professional judgment.”
• “the General Assembly has broad regulatory power ***, and it is within the discretion of the legislature to not only determine what is required in the public interest and welfare, but also to determine the measures needed to secure such interest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).