Renée Flaherty is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Va.
Opinion
NC Supreme Court gets second chance to do right thing on CON law
North Carolina regulators crossed a line in 1973 when they told a nonprofit hospital it could not build new facilities on its own land with its own money. A new law had given the regulators veto power, but the state Supreme Court intervened and declared the statute unconstitutional. The decision was not close. The justices...