Holland v. Mercy Health

James G. Carr, Sr. U.S. District Judge

This is an employment-discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights *820Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, et seq. ; the Civil Rights of 1866, 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ; similar state-law provisions; and Ohio tort law.

Plaintiff Fred Holland is a white cardiothoracic surgeon who worked at defendant Mercy Health St. Vincent's Medical Center from 2013 until 2017. The gravamen of his complaint is that a group of Pakistan-born doctors who "ran" St. Vincent's schemed to deprive him of patient referrals because he is white and not of Pakistani origin. (Doc. 1 at ¶¶…