Memorial Hospital for McHenry County v. The Honorable Milton I. Shadur, United States District Judge

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• holding that the state privilege should not apply when the peer review records sought directly related to the allegations challenging the peer review process
• holding that, where the principal claim in the case arises under a federal law and state law does not supply the rule of decision, the district court is not required to apply state law in determining whether discovery is privileged under IMSA
• noting that hospital’s compliance with district court’s order to produce peer-review materials protected by state law could not subject hospital to criminal liability under state law
• finding that a hospital’s compliance with a federal discovery order would not subject the hospital to liability under a state law because the state law was rendered void by the Supremacy Clause
• pointing out the potential for physicians to use the framework of peer review groups for anticompetitive purposes
• pointing out the potential for physicians to use the framework of peer review groups for anticompetitive purposes

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