United States Fourth Circuit

After termination of medical staff privileges, a physician's action alleging 1) the unconstitutionality of federal statutes granting immunity to peer review participants and Maryland physician credentialing statutes, and 2) ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims, was properly dismissed due to the discretion owed to hospital governance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/29/2002
• Decided 12/13/2002
• Published 12/13/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Paul Steven Blumenthal, Law Office of Paul S. Blumenthal, P.A., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellants.  Jonathan Barkasy Sprague, Post & Schell, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellees Upper Chesapeake Health, et al.;  Wendy Ann Kronmiller, Assistant Attorney General, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee State of Maryland;  Katherine Sutherland Dawson, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee United States.   ON BRIEF:  Jennifer M. Valinski, Law Office of Paul S. Blumenthal, P.A., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellants.  Brian M. Peters, Post & Schell, P.C., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellees Upper Chesapeake Health, et al.   J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee State of Maryland.  Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Thomas M. DiBiagio, United States Attorney, Mark B. Stern, Alisa B. Klein, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee United States.