United States Eleventh Circuit

In civil rights actions brought by an African American staff physician claiming discrimination in the implementation of peer review and disciplinary processes, the Court of Appeals declines to recognize a privilege for documents relating to medical peer review proceedings in federal discrimination cases, and the district court improperly limited the scope of discovery, resulting in the premature grant of defendants' motion for summary judgment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2007
• Published 06/12/2007

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernadette Crucilla, Althea L. Buafo, Buafo & Buafo & Associates, Macon, GA, for Adkins., Kevin E. Grady, Jack Palmer Smith, III, Alston & Bird, LLP, Brian William Looby, Med. Ass'n of GA, Atlanta, GA, for Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Robert Koster, Cynthia M. Daley, Daley, Koster & LaVallee, LLC, Rush S. Smith, Jr., Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, PC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.