Opinion
201510
10-05-2021
CHESAPEAKE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, D/B/A CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER v. STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER, ET AL.
Peter M. Mellette and Elizabeth D. Coleman (Mellette PC) and H. Guy Collier (Winston & Strawn LLP) for appellant. Jamie B. Martin, Jeremy A. Ball, Matthew M. Cobb, and Jennifer L. Ligon (Williams Mullen) for appellee Sentara Hospitals and Vanessa C. MacLeod (Office of the Attorney General) for appellee State Health Commissioner.
The Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Peter M. Mellette and Elizabeth D. Coleman (Mellette PC) and H. Guy Collier (Winston & Strawn LLP) for appellant.
Jamie B. Martin, Jeremy A. Ball, Matthew M. Cobb, and Jennifer L. Ligon (Williams Mullen) for appellee Sentara Hospitals and Vanessa C. MacLeod (Office of the Attorney General) for appellee State Health Commissioner.
GRANTED APPEAL SUMMARY
Assignments of Error
1. The Court of Appeals erred in applying the harmless error doctrine to an agency's legal error in interpreting and applying its own regulations.
2. The Court of Appeals erred in deferring, without robust analysis, to an agency's interpretation of its own regulations in contravention of recent United States Supreme Court precedent.