Singleton v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
A doctor challenges a law that requires healthcare providers to obtain a “certificate of need,” known as a “CON” law, before offering new services or facilities in a geographic area. The North Carolina Supreme Court remanded to a lower court panel to consider facial, not only as-applied, claims under the state constitution’s “fruits of labor,” “law of the land,” emoluments, and anti-monopoly clauses. On remand, the trial court panel dismissed the facial claims.
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