Legal Opinion
Desai v. St. Barnabas Medical Center
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 30, 1986PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
HANDLER, J.
The main issue posed by this appeal is whether the plaintiff, Mahesh Desai, a medical doctor, was unlawfully denied hospital staff privileges by the defendant, St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston (St. Barnabas or hospital). Dr. Desai instituted an action against the defendant hospital seeking to compel the hospital to admit him to its regular medical staff. The law suit was filed after St. Barnabas had thrice rejected Dr. Desai’s application for staff privileges. Dr. Desai alleged that the exclusionary application of the hospital’s…
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