Russell E. Adkins, M.D. v. Arthur P. Christie

How courts have described this case

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

• describing a medical provider’s interests in a peer-review privilege, including interests in encouraging candor in the peer-review process, maintaining patient confidentiality, and avoiding malpractice litigation
• declining to recognize a medical peer review privilege in federal civil rights cases
• “[T]he medical peer review process does not warrant the extraordinary protection of an evidentiary privilege in federal civil rights cases.”
• finding no medical peer-review privilege in a federal discrimination case
• rejecting privilege in doctor’s § 1981 discrimination case
• claim involved discrimination by peer-review committee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).