Nicholls v. Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center

SUMMARY ORDER

Familiarity by the parties is assumed as to the facts, the procedural context, and the specification of appellate issues. Alicia Nicholls (“Nicholls”), formerly a physician’s assistant at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center (“Hospital”), was fired for knowingly falsifying Hospital records. The Hospital asserted that Nicholls, contrary to hospital policy, had signed the names of physicians including Dr. Michael Epter. Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between the Hospital and Nicholls’s union, Service Employees International Union Local 1199 AFL-CIO…