Wendell P. Engelstad, M.D. v. Virginia Municipal Hospital and Virginia Hospital Commission

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Mr. Wendell Engelstad brought this § 1983 action, claiming that the Virginia Municipal Hospital and the Virginia Hospital Commission 1 (“hospital”) violated his constitutional rights by terminating him from his director of the pathology department position without providing him with procedural due process protections as guaranteed by federal law and by the hospital’s own bylaws.

After a two-and-one-half day trial on Dr. Engelstad’s § 1983 claim, the trial court 2 issued an Order of Judgment against Dr. Engelstad and in favor of the hospital. We affirm the…