MRI Associates, Inc. v. Department of Public Health

Following denial of their requests for approval to transfer the sites of their respective clinic operations, the plain*338tiffs filed a complaint in the Superior Court, challenging the authority of the Department of Public Health (department) to deny their requests. In a thoughtful and thorough memorandum of decision, a judge of the Superior Court denied the plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment and for judgment on the pleadings, and directed entry of judgment for the department. Applying well settled principles of statutory construction and administrative law, we agree that the department…