United States Fifth Circuit

Claims arising out of a hospital's summary suspension of a doctor's clinical privileges were not actionable where 1) plaintiff received all the pre-suspension process he was constitutionally due, and 2) he failed to present evidence of pretext from which racial discrimination could be inferred, or that suspension was for anticompetitive reasons.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2002
• Published 07/10/2002

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, EMILIO M. GARZA and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Murchison, Jr. (argued), Alison L. Smith, Gwendolyn Johnson Samora, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, Ted M. Kerr, Kerr & Ward, Midland, TX, for Midland Memorial Hosp. and Medical Center, Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute, Mendez, Loveman and Rubin., Scott Patrick Stolley, George C. Chapman, Christopher Lee Barnes (argued), Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for Permian Cardiology Group, Brown and Miller.


• For Appellees:
  
• David W. Townend (argued), Brown, Brown, Chandler & Townend, Garland, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.