Quinn v. Aero Services, 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 hospital’s peer review records were not privileged from discovery where physician claimed that hospital’s peer review process was conducted in a discriminatory manner
• observing that medical peer-review evidence was “crucial” to a doctor’s attempt to establish that he has been subject to disparate treatment on the basis of race
• discussing the role of a protective order in alleviating confidentiality concerns with regard to discovery material produced
• refusing to recognize the privilege in a discrimination case because, among other things, “if a plaintiff succeeds in a discrimination case, he advances important public interests in addition to his personal interests”
• declining to recognize a medical peer review privilege in an employment discrimination claim
• “We agree with our sister circuits that in a case involving both federal and state law claims, the federal law of privilege applies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).