Boucher v. Sayeed

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

We have consolidated these petitions for the common-law writ of certiorari and have agreed to review orders entered in two unrelated medical malpractice actions by two different justices of the Superior Court, each of whom had vacated the assignment of each case for a preliminary hearing at which a determination was to be made by each justice concerning whether the evidence presented at the hearing, “if properly substantiated * * * would be sufficient to raise a legitimate question of liability appropriate for judicial inquiry or whether the plaintiff’s case is merely…