A judge says a charter fight over the denial of liver transplants to alcohol abusers can proceed.
The case involves the estates of two men who died from liver disease.
Toronto-based University Health Network had refused them transplants because of their drinking.
One of the men died in May; the other had died in 2010.
The network argued it is not subject to the charter as a private entity, but the judge disagreed.
In his decision, the judge says hospitals provide medical services to further government objectives.