MISSISSIPPI ETHICS COM'N v. ASEME

No. 07-CA-59343.

583 So.2d 955 (1991)

The STATE of MISSISSIPPI, By and Through the Mississippi ETHICS COMMISSION, a State Agency; Walter Brown, Gene L. Fair, Mark G. Hazard, Ben H. Stone, Nina B. Goolsby, Delos H. Burks, Elizabeth C. Powers, and John Allen Darnell, in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Mississippi Ethics Commission v. Kate N. ASEME, M.D., Mississippi Hospital Association and Mississippi State Medical Association.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 3, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Larry E. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellants.

George Q. Evans, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, R. Mark Hodges, Wise Carter Firm, Jackson, Burke C. Murphy, Jr., Canton, for appellees.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PRATHER and PITTMAN, JJ.


DAN M. LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

Today's case challenges the grant of summary judgment in a suit seeking declaratory judgment regarding the relationship between a public hospital and a physician who has been granted staff privileges at that public hospital. The Chancery Court of Hinds County, the Honorable Stuart Robinson presiding, determined that as a matter of law, such relationship does not, in and of itself, create a contract such that service of...

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