Health Care & Hospital Law
Feb. 2, 2024
US News: San Francisco can’t dig into hospital rankings
The San Francisco city attorney is using his position “to engage in viewpoint discrimination and … is proceeding as though he holds censorial (or editorial) authority over how U.S. News performs its journalistic work ranking hospitals.” John M. Potter of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP wrote in a motion for injunction.
Attorneys for U.S. News & World Report asked a federal judge to enjoin San Francisco from looking into how the media company evaluates its hospital rankings on First Amendment grounds, as the city attorney’s office has questioned U.S. News’ financial ties to health care institutions.
“U.S. News already demonstrated its willingness to waste judicial resources to evade legitimate questions about its undisclosed financial links to the ho...
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