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

WILSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns an evidentiary privilege known as the “medical peer review privilege.” The privilege seeks to protect from discovery and disclosure records containing performance reviews and assessments of physicians by their peers, primarily in connection with their practices at hospitals. The issue before us is whether to recognize the privilege in federal civil rights cases. The Fourth and Seventh Circuits have denied the privilege in these cases. We join them in declining to recognize a privilege for documents relating to medical peer review proceedings in…