Legal Opinion
Luis J. Laje v. R. E. Thomason General Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 14, 1982No. 80-2168PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge:
Appellee Dr. Luis Laje filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 1 following his discharge from the post of Clinical Director of Psychiatry at R. E. Thomason General Hospital (Appellant). Appellant is a component of the El Paso County Hospital District, in El Paso, Texas. Dr. Laje’s complaint alleged that his discharge, and the hospital’s failure to process his request for staff privileges, deprived him of substantive and procedural due process. In a prior appeal this court held that the decision of appellant’s Board of Managers to deny Dr. Laje’s staff privileges was…
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