United States Fourth Circuit

Medical peer review materials are not privileged documents even though discoverability may operate to reduce candor on the part of doctors who serve on medical peer review committees.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2001
• Decided 08/01/2001
• Published 08/01/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and REBECCA BEACH SMITH, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Lawrence Carlton Moore, III, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Charlotte, NC, for Appellant. James Clayton Culotta, Law Office of Kenneth Joel Haber, P.C., Rockville, MD, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Everett J. Bowman, Louis A. Bledsoe, III, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., Charlotte, NC, for Appellant.  Kenneth J. Haber, Charles E. Hamilton, III, Law Office of Kenneth Joel Haber, P.C., Rockville, MD, for Appellee.  Julian D. Bobbitt, Jr., Sean A. Timmons, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P., Raleigh, NC, for Amici Curiae Medical Society, et al.  Normand F. Pizza, Carin A. Kramer, Milling, Benson, Woodward, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Amici Curiae Association of Physicians, et al.