Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council, Inc. v. Whalen

This is án action for judgment enjoining the defendant, Robert P. Whalen, M. D., as Commissioner of Health of the State of New York, from making available for *306public inspection to the intervenor-defendant, Newsday, Inc., or any other members of the news media or the public, copies of or information contained in the surveys and reports now in his possession made by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) with respect to hospitals located in the State of New York.

The issue to be determined is whether such hospital survey reports are included as material to be publicly…