Menorah Medical Center v. Health & Educational Facilities Authority

MORGAN, Chief Justice.

Menorah Medical Center, Washington University and St. Louis University, as plaintiffs, sought a declaratory judgment that the Health and Educational Facilities Act (passed in 1975 and now constituting Chapter 360 of the statutory law of this state) did not contravene any provisions of the Missouri and United States Constitutions. Defendants were the Health and Educational Facilities Authority, created by the Act, and the individual members thereof.

Judgment was entered in the Circuit Court of Cole County in favor of plaintiffs. It was predicated obviously upon twenty-six…