No. 22-1194

Lillian M. Jones v. Hawai'i Medical Board, et al.

Lower Court: Hawaii
Docketed: 2023-06-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: evidence-standard healthcare-quality-improvement-act judicial-review medical-board national-practitioner-data-bank physician-reporting physicians-blacklist reporting-immunity state-lines summary-judgment
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

I.
Whether Congress Under the Healthcare Quality
Improvement Act (HCQIA) Intended Only to Protect Reporting Physicians and Entities to the
"Physicians' Blacklist," the National Practitioner
Data Bank (NPDB) Because They Were the "Intended Class" to Benefit From Reporting and
Tracking Potentially
Dangerous
Physicians
Across State Lines.

II.
Whether the Lower Courts Flagrantly Disregarded Examining Evidence Under HCQIA and
Erroneously Awarded Respondents Judgment on
the Pleadings or in the Alternative Summary
Judgment as a Matter of Law.

III. Whether the Lower Courts, Misled by Judicial
Analysis Under HCQIA applied bad case law to
guide its conclusion.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Congress intended HCQIA to protect reporting physicians and entities to the National Practitioner Data Bank

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-07-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-06-21
Waiver of right of respondent Hawaii Medical Board to respond filed.
2023-06-07

Attorneys

Hawaii Medical Board
Shari J. WongState of Hawaii Attorney General , Respondent
Lillian Jones
Lillian M. Jones — Petitioner