Shahawy v. Harrison

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

Antitrust, civil rights, and defamation rulings are reviewed in this case arising from a public hospital board’s termination of a physician’s medical staff membership and other privileges. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I. FACTS

In November, 1982, appellants, Mahfouz El Shahawy and his medical association, brought this action against the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, the hospital’s medical review committee members, and physicians on the hospital’s staff. The lawsuit resulted from the hospital board’s denial of Shahawy’s request for cardiac…