Paul A. Stern v. Tarrant County Hospital District v. George J. Luibel

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A Texas statute forbids state agencies to differentiate among physicians solely on the basis of their academic medical degrees.1 Five licensed physicians, each of whom has had at least two years of postdoctoral training in a program accredited by the American Osteopathic Association, challenge the constitutionality of a requirement imposed by a state-agency hospital that, to practice in the hospital, a physician must have completed two years of post-doctoral training in a program accredited by the Accreditation Committee on Graduate *432Medical Education, which…