United States Ninth Circuit

In a former hospital resident's claims that termination from a residency program was in retaliation for questioning of a doctor's billing practices, the hospital waived the right to have its liability considered apart from that of the doctor, and jury instructions properly stated the law on First Amendment retaliation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/05/2002
• Decided 04/28/2003
• Published 04/28/2003

Judges

• Before: B. FLETCHER, O'SCANNLAIN, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barbee B. Lyon,Peter H. Koehler, Karin L. Guenther, and Scott G. Seidman, Tonkon Torp LLP, Portland, OR, for the defendants-appellants., Scott N. Hunt & Richard C. Busse, Busse & Hunt, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.