Juan A. Davila-Lopes v. Jose Soler Zapata

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a physician from a judgment dismissing his § 1983 complaint against officials of a Puerto Rico regional hospital who rejected his initial application for limited courtesy privileges without explanation or hearing, in violation of hospital bylaws. It raises the interesting question whether the hospital’s detailed set of procedural regulations created a property interest entitling appellant to procedural due process. We conclude that they did not.

Appellant, a licensed physician, has invoked 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that his constitutional…