Smith v. Cleburne County Hospital

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., District Judge.

On February 14, 1985, this Court found that plaintiff’s medical staff privileges at the Cleburne County Hospital were revoked because plaintiff publicly criticized the patient care afforded patrons at the hospital; that the criticism was protected conduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution; and that defendants had failed to demonstrate that plaintiff’s staff privileges would have been revoked even in the absence of the exercise of the protected conduct. The parties were afforded an…