Dr. Allen Shaw v. The Hospital Authority of Cobb County and Its Individual Members

BELL, Circuit Judge:

We are required in this appeal to apply the “procedural due process — liberty or property interest” principle outlined in Board of Regents v. Roth, 1972, 408 U.S. 564, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 33 L.Ed.2d 548, to the claim of a podiatrist to staff privileges in a public hospital. We vacate and remand for further consideration.

The complaint against the defendants, the Hospital Authority and its individual members, claimed arbitrary conduct on their part in denying appellant staff privileges at Cobb General Hospital, a hospital under the supervision of the defendants. The component…