Legal Opinion
Dr. John R. Briscoe v. Edward J. Bock, Trustees of Deaconess Hospital, and the Evangelical Deaconess Society of St. Louis, D/B/A Deaconess Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1976No. 76-1055PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Circuit Judge.
Dr. John R. Briscoe of St. Louis, Missouri plaintiff below and appellant here, brought this action against the members of the Board of Trustees of Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis and the Hospital itself alleging that in 1974 he had been terminated as a member of the staff of the Hospital in violation of rights secured to him by the Constitution of the United States and in violation of alleged private contractual rights.
The suit was filed initially in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis and was removed by the defendants to the United States District Court for the…
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