BRIDGES v. BANNER HEALTH

No. S-12559.

201 P.3d 484 (2008)

Robert L. BRIDGES, M.D., and Alaska Open Imaging, LLC, Appellants, v. BANNER HEALTH d/b/a Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, and Karleen Jackson, in her official capacity as Commissioner, State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 19, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Gunther, Law Office of Robert J. Gunther, Anchorage, and Mark S. Bledsoe, Law Offices of Mark S. Bledsoe, Anchorage, for Appellants.

Peter J. Maassen, Ingaldson, Maassen & Fitzgerald, Anchorage, and Peter Gruenstein, Gruenstein & Hickey, Anchorage, for Appellee, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.

Stacie L. Kraly, Assistant Attorney General, and Talis J. Colberg, Attorney General, Juneau, for Appellees, State of Alaska and Karleen Jackson.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The superior court enjoined Alaska Open Imaging Center (AOIC) from operating its Fairbanks magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility without first obtaining a certificate of need (CON). Six weeks after the superior court issued the injunction enjoining AOIC, AOIC's medical director, Dr. Robert Bridges, unsuccessfully moved to intervene in the superior court...

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