Bhanukumar C. Shah v. Deaconess Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that doctor was an independent contractor in part because he never received a W-2
• holding that enforc- ing a standard of care “after the fact, through the peer review process,” is not indicative of control for Title VII
• holding that a doctor was an 18 independent contractor in part because he never received a W-2
• holding that surgeon with surgical privileges was not an employee of hospital and thus could not bring suit under either the Age Discrimination in Employment Act or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• suggesting that the interference theory is not consistent with the common law agency test
• concluding doctor was an independent contractor where he treated his own patients, engaged with other hospitals, and did not have to accept patients referred to him from the hospital

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).