LAWNWOOD MEDICAL CENTER, INC. v. SEEGER

No. 1D06-2016.

959 So.2d 1222 (2007)

LAWNWOOD MEDICAL CENTER, INC. d/b/a Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute, Appellant, v. Randall SEEGER, M.D., as President of the Medical Staff of Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, Inc., d/b/a Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute, and Member of the Medical Executive Committee of Lawnwood Regional Medical Center, Inc., d/b/a Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Bronis and Steve Wisotsky of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Miami, for Appellant.

Major B. Harding of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee; and Richard H. Levenstein of Kramer, Sewell, Sopko & Levenstein, Stuart, for Appellee.

Harold R. Mardenborough, Jr., for Amici American Medical Association and Florida Medical Association, Tallahassee.

Glenn J. Webber of Seidule & Webber, P.A., Stuart, for Amicus Association of American Physicians & Surgeons.


ALLEN, J.

The appellant, a Florida for-profit corporation operating an acute-care hospital in St. Lucie County known as Lawnwood Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute ("Lawnwood"), challenges an adverse summary final judgment by which the trial court invalidated a special law, chapter 2003-372, Laws of Florida, the "St. Lucie County Hospital Governance Law." Because this special law violates article I, section 10 of the Florida Constitution in that it impermissibly...

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