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Ninth Circuit Rules that State Certificate of Need Laws May Unconstitutionally Burden Interstate Commerce – Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital v. Washington State Department of Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2021
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1 Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp. v. Wash. State Dep't of Health, Nos. 10-35497, 10-35543, 2011 WL 3629895 (9th Cir. Aug. 19, 2011).
2 WASH. ADMIN. CODE §§ 246-310-700 to -755 (2008).
3 See Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 2011 WL 3629895, at *11.
4 Id. at *1.
5 Id.
6 Id.
7 Id.
8 Id.
9 See id.
10 See id.
11 See Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp. v. Wash. State Dep't of Health, 717 F. Supp. 2d 1159 (E.D. Wash. 2010), aff’d in part, rev’d in part, 2011 WL 3629895 (9th Cir. Aug. 19, 2011).
12 See Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 2011 WL 3629895, at *2.
13 Id. The dormant Commerce Clause doctrine refers to the inference that the Commerce Clause restricts states from exercising regulatory authority over interstate commerce.
14 See Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 717 F. Supp. 2d at 1165-66.
15 See id. at 1164.
16 See id. at 1163-64. Hybrid restraints are created by regulations that leave a discretionary gap in the restraint of trade for private parties to fill, while unilateral restraints do not require any further action by private parties because the restraint of trade is complete at the time the regulation is enacted. Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 2011Google Scholar WL 3629895, at *4.
17 See Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 717 F. Supp. 2d at 1163.
18 See id. at 1168, 1170.
19 See id. at 1169-70.
20 See id. at 1170.
21 Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 2011 WL 3629895, at *2.
22 Id.
23 See id. at *11.
24 See id. at *6.
25 See id.
26 See id.
27 See id. at *8-9.
28 Id. at *9.
29 See id. at *1.
30 Id. at *9.
31 Id. at *10.
32 Id.
33 See id. at *7, *8, *11.
34 Certificate of Need Laws – The Beginning of the End?, GARVEY SCHUBERT BARER (Sept. 14, 2011), http://www.gsblaw.com/news/legal_update/certificate_of_need_laws__the_beginning_of_the_end.
35 Yakima Valley Mem’l Hosp., 2011 WL 3629895, at *1.
36 Certificate of Need Laws – The Beginning of the End?, supra note 34.
37 Id.
38 Douglas C. Ross & Charles S. Wright, Court Holds Certificate of Need Laws May Be Unconstitutional, DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE LLP (Aug. 23, 2011), http://www.dwt.com/ LearningCenter/Advisories?find=431860.