Connecticut Hospital Ass'n v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care

The plaintiffs, thirty-four hospitals in Connecticut1 (hereinafter hospitals), have appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court rendered in favor of the defendant commission on hospitals and health care (hereinafter commission). The hospitals claim that the trial court erred: (1) by applying improper standards in its review of the declaratory ruling issued by the commission; and (2) by failing to reverse the declaratory ruling of the commission and to hold that the commission has no authority to regulate capital expenditures that are under the statutory threshold dollar amounts set forth…