LaFARO v. NEW YORK CARDIOTHORACIC GROUP, PLLC

Docket No. 08-4621-cv.

570 F.3d 471 (2009)

Rocco J. LaFARO, M.D., Arlen G. Fleisher, M.D., Cardiac Surgery Group, P.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NEW YORK CARDIOTHORACIC GROUP, PLLC, Steven L. Lansman, M.D., David Spielvogel, M.D., Westchester County Health Care Corporation, Westchester Medical Center, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 1, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. Menaker, Menaker & Herrmann, New York, N.Y., for Petitioners.

Jordy Rabinowitz, Senior Associates General Counsel, Westchester County Health Care Corporation, Office of Legal Affairs Executive Offices, Valhalla, N.Y., for Respondents.

Before: CALABRESI and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and DRONEY, District Judge.


DRONEY, District Judge:

BACKGROUND

The defendant Westchester County Health Care Corporation ("WCHCC") is a public benefit corporation created by the state of New York in 1997 to perform the "essential public and governmental function" of operating the Westchester County Medical Center ("WMC"), a hospital in Valhalla, New York. See N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law §§ 3300 et seq. WCHCC's enabling statute endowed it with broad and comprehensive...

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