Placentia-Linda Community Hospital, Inc. v. Zaretsky

Opinion

THE COURT.*

The parties to this action are the plaintiff/appellant, Placentia-Linda Community Hospital, Inc. (hereafter hospital) and the respondent, the Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for the State of California (hereafter director).

On May 1, 1979, the trial court denied hospital’s petition for a writ of mandate to require the director to issue a certificate of exemption pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 437.13, exempting hospital from the requirements of Health and Safety Code section 437.10. The hospital had made application to the…