Cedar County Memorial Hospital v. Nevada City Hospital

JAMES M. SMART, Jr., Judge.

In this case, a public hospital in Cedar County seeks a judicial declaration as to the legality of an expansion into that county by a public hospital based in a neighboring county. The action is brought by Cedar County Memorial Hospital (“Cedar County Hospital”) against Nevada City Hospital in an effort to block the latter’s planned expansion into Cedar County. Upon defendant’s motion, the trial court dismissed the declaratory judgment action on grounds that Cedar County Hospital lacked standing to bring such an action because the statute it relied upon did not…