Liberty Nursing Center, Inc. v. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing DHMH’s authority to “calculate a provider’s ‘final per diem rate’ according to ... the [PRM]” (citations omitted)
• recognizing DHMH's authority to \calculate a provider's `final per diem rate' according to . . . the [PRM]\ (citations omitted)
• stating that “if reasoning minds could reasonably reach the conclusion reached by the agency from the facts in the record, then it is based upon substantial evidence, and the court has no power to reject that conclusion”
• “Judicial review of agency fact finding is narrow in scope and requires the exercise of a restrained and disciplined judicial judgment.”
• no deference is appropriate and reviewing court may substitute its judgment for that of the agency when issue before agency is one solely of law
• “When ... the issue before the agency for resolution is one solely of law, ordinarily no deference is appropriate and the reviewing court may substitute its judgment for that of the agency.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).