Publication Date: 2012-09-12
Practice Area:
Industry:
Date Filed: 2012-09-11
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Roger T. Benitez, District Judge, Presiding Before: Harry Pregerson, Ronald M. Gould, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald S. Connelly (argued) and Mary Susan Philp, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC, Washington, DC; and Dick A. Semerdjian, Schwartz Semerdjian Haile Ballard & Cauley LLP, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Washington, DC; Long X. Do, California Medical Association, Sacramento, California; and Jon N. Ekdahl and Leonard A. Nelson, American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois, Amicus Curiae for American Medical Association.
Mark Steven Hardiman, John R. Hellow, and Mark Emerson Reagan, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California, Amicus Curiae for Federation of American Hospitals.
Long X. Do and Francisco J. Silva, California Medical Association, Sacramento, California, Amicus Curiae for California Medical Association.
Mark Steven Hardiman, John R. Hellow, and Mark Emerson Reagan, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California, Amicus Curiae for American Hospital Care Association.
Jodi P. Berlin, Lloyd A. Bookman, and Abigail W. Grigsby, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Angeles, California, Amicus Curiae for California Hospital Association.
for defendant: Christine N. Kohl (argued) and Anthony J. Steinmeyer, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee.
Case Number: No. 10-56529
Cite as 12 C.D.O.S. 10556
PALOMAR MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, Secretary of