NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS v. PERALES

No. 87 Civ. 4896 (MJL).

833 F.Supp. 353 (1993)

NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION, Medical Society of the State of New York, Sidney Finkel, and John A. Bleski, Plaintiffs, and Benedictine Hospital, Beth Israel Medical Center, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Center, Buffalo General Hospital, Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center, Clifton Springs Hospital & Clinic, Community-General Hospital of Greater Syracuse, De Graff Memorial Hospital, Episcopal Health Services, Inc., Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society, The Genesee Hospital, Glens Falls Hospital, A. Barton Hepburn Hospital, Highland Hospital of Rochester, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, The Long Island College Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Maimonides Medical Center, Nassau County Medical Center, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, Northern Westchester Hospital Center, Oswego Hospital, Our Lady of Victory Hospital, Park Ridge Hospital, St. Barnabas Hospital, St. Clare's Hospital of Schenectady, St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center (Syracuse), St. Mary's Hospital (Rochester), St. Peter's Hospital, St. Vincent's Medical Center of Richmond, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Strong Memorial Hospital, Union Hospital of The Bronx, and White Plains Hospital Center, Plaintiffs-Hospital Intervenors, and Midwood Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Hunter Ambulance, Inc., Approved Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Mercy Medical Transportation, Inc., TWC Ambulance Service, Inc., Empress Ambulance Service, Inc., Richmond County Ambulance Service, Inc., Citywide Ambulance Service, Inc., Weir Ambulance, Inc., Associated Ambulance Service, Inc., Park Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Bi-County Ambulance Service, Inc., Stat Equipment Corp. d/b/a Stat Ambulance Service, Medibus, Inc., Robinson's Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Metropolitan Ambulance & First Aid Corp., Metro-North Ambulance Co., AA Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Admiral Ambulance Service, Inc., National Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Eastern Ambulance Service, Inc., Peconic Ambulance Service, Inc., Monroe Ambulance, Response Medical Transport and Crest Ambulance, Plaintiffs-Ambulance Intervenors, v. Cesar A. PERALES, as Commissioner of Social Services of the State of New York and Louis W. Sullivan, as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosenman & Colin by Peter F. Nadel, David A. Florman, Allison Sher, New York City, for plaintiff NY City Health and Hospitals Corp. and intervenors.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae by Jay G. Safer, New York City, for plaintiffs Medical Soc. of State of NY, Sidney Finkel, John A. Bleski and plaintiffs-ambulance intervenors.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of NY, New York City, for defendant Perales.


OPINION AND ORDER

LOWE, District Judge.

Before this Court is the motion for contempt filed August 28, 1992 by plaintiffs New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation ("HHC"), Sidney Finkel, and John A. Bleski, seeking to hold the defendant Commissioner of Social Services of the State of New York (the "Commissioner") in civil contempt for failure to comply with the June 3, 1992 Order of this Court. Also before the Court are motions by plaintiffs-hospital...

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