Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn & Queens, Inc. v. Rockefeller

This is an appeal by the defendant officers of the State of New York from a declaratory judgment entered by a three judge district court sitting in the Eastern District of New York. The district court held, as the plaintiff hospitals had alleged in their first of three causes of action, that Chapters 184 and 957 of the New York Laws of 1969, amending Section 2807(2) of New York’s Public Health Law, McKinney’s Consol.Laws, c. 45, are in conflict with pertinent federal statutes and regulations and violate the Supremacy Clause in Article VI of the United States Constitution.

As we affirm the…