Marcelino Oliva, Jr., D. O. v. Charles F. Touchton, Jr.

This case involves the Florida and possibly the Federal Constitutional question of whether osteopathic physicians are in the same class with medical doctors, so as to require rules for admission to state-operated hospital facilities to apply equally to both schools of healing. As the outcome may well turn on State questions only, thus avoiding a needless exploration of Federal Constitutional questions, this case is a classic one for certification to the Supreme Court of Florida.

Following “our experience-born practice we requested that the parties submit a proposed agreed certificate of the…