Fox v. Good Samaritan L.P.

ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

RICHARD SEEBORG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This action had its genesis in 1999 when plaintiff Richard B. Fox, who by all accounts is a highly competent and well respected pediatrician, had his privileges to practice at Good Samaritan Hospital (“GSH”) suspended. The ostensible basis for that action was Fox’s refusal to comply with a then newly imposed rule requiring pediatricians to designate as “back-ups” two physicians holding privileges identical to those of the applying physician. Fox insists, however, that the true reasons for the…