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Burger v. Lutheran General Hospital

Case Date: 12/31/1969
Court: Supreme Court
Docket No: 89643, 89644 cons.  Rel

Docket Nos. 89643, 89644 cons.-Agenda 19-March 2001.

DORIS BURGER, Appellee, v. LUTHERAN GENERAL
HOSPITAL et al., Appellants.

Opinion filed October 18, 2001.

JUSTICE McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

At issue in these consolidated cases is whether certainprovisions of section 6.17 of the Hospital Licensing Act (Act) (210ILCS 85/6.17 (West 2000)), as amended by Public Act 91-526(Pub. Act 91-526, eff. January 1, 2000), violate the IllinoisConstitution of 1970. The circuit court of Cook County held thatportions of sections 6.17(d) and (e) and all of section 6.17(h)violate the doctrine of separation of powers (Ill. Const. 1970, art.II,