Dr. Jacqulyn Diggs v. Harris Hospital-Methodist, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that physician with staff privileges is not an employee and thus cannot bring claim under Title VII of 1964 Civil Rights Act
• holding that the plaintiff was not an employee even though she used the defendant’s tools and equipment
• concluding that obstetrician-gynecologist with staff privileges at hospital failed to establish she was a hospital employee
• noting that “patients d[o] not control the manner and means of [the doctor’s] professional treatment”
• accepting the Spirides factors, but noting that the right to control is an especially crucial factor
• stating that “[a] physician’s work involves considerable skill.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).