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· 3/22/2022

William M. Davis, Trustee of the Restatement of the Bill D. Davis and Judith E. Davis Joint Revocable Trust Agreement dated January 27, 1993 v. Larry A. Smith and Mary L. Smith

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  • not abuse of discretion to admit documents to show that person \had notice or knowledge of their contents\
  • state of mind evidence properly admitted, and limiting instructions ensured that jury would not find evidence \necessarily true\
  • \[a]n extrajudicial statement is not hearsay when offered to prove that the person to whom it was addressed had notice or knowledge of the contents of the statement\ [citation omitted]
  • “The focus must be on the committee member’s actions within the peer review committee process itself, not on possible discriminatory reasons for initiating a review of the plaintiff’s work” [emphasis added]
  • “Those [federal discrimination] cases are irrelevant because our Legislature has Order Page 3 of 9 24-CV-00870 Liam Gannon, MD v. Copley Hospital Inc. created a statutory medical peer review privilege that we must effectuate.”
  • memorandum admissible to show notice and knowledge

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Judges: Mark D. Pfeiffer, Presiding Judge

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