United States Tenth Circuit

In a medical malpractice action under the Federal Tort Claims Act, denial of defendants' motion to dismiss is affirmed where defendants have failed to demonstrate that they are entitled to FTCA immunity as "federal employees."

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2004
• Published 11/18/2004

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before EBEL, ANDERSON, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary S. Pitchlynn (Patrick A. Morse and O. Joseph Williams, Pitchlynn & Morse, P.A., Norman, OK, and Stephen Peterson and Michael S. McMillin, Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneau & Moon, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs), Pitchlynn & Morse, P.A., Norman, OK, for Defendants-Appellants Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc. and Jihad Ahmad, M.D., Perry T. Marrs, Jr. and William C. Medley IV, Short Wiggins Margo & Butts, Oklahoma City, OK, on the briefs for Defendant-Appellant C. Thomas Covington, M.D., Madeline Henley, (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Asst. Attorney General, Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, Jeffrey Axelrad, Director of Department of Justice Torts Branch, with her on the briefs) Department of Justice Torts Branch, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellee United States of America., H. Buckmaster Coyne, Jr., George W. Braly, Braly & Braly and Coyne, Ada, OK, on the briefs for Plaintiff-Appellee John Alton Woodruff.