Morreale v. Department of Community Health

Flaintiff, Vittorio M. Morreale, M.D., appeals as of right an order of the trial court granting the motion for summary disposition of defendant, Department of Community Health, Bureau of Health Frofessions, and denying plaintiffs motion for summary disposition, ruling that the application of the preponderance of the evidence standard in disciplinary proceedings against physicians does not violate due process. Because the burden of proof in health-professional disciplinary proceedings against physicians is in fact by a preponderance of the evidence, and because the application of that standard…