United States Seventh Circuit

Physician failed to show that defendant buyer of his medical practice intentionally discriminated against him under 42 USC 1981 because of his race where, aside from concern about his ability to form doctor-patient relationships with white patients, no other facts showed that ethnicity played no role in defendant's decision to sell plaintiff's medical practice.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2001
• Decided 07/06/2001
• Published 07/06/2001

Judges

• FLAUM, Chief Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• F. Amin Istrabadi (argued), Boesch & Istrabadi, Valparaiso, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Daugherty (argued), Robert M. Mirkov, Merrillville, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.