Remember Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in the Charles Dickens classic Bleak House? The case drags on for so long that the only winners are the lawyers? (Not that that’s all bad.) Well, Jarndyce is playing out in a medical staff dispute on the Jersey Shore. The latest chapter came out on March 14, when the …
Rip Van Winkle Fails in Effort to Enjoin Peer Review Process
February 6, 2015 Leave a Comment
Okay, it wasn’t really Rip Van Winkle. Rip slept for only twenty years. It was Dr. Legrand Belnap who sued a Salt Lake City hospital and its medical executive committee members. But from the looks of his pleadings, he’s been asleep for nearly thirty years—since before enactment of the Health Care …