Volpicelli v. Jared Sydney Torrance Memorial Hospital

Opinion

JEFFERSON (Bernard), Acting P. J.*

More than two years after defendants terminated plaintiff physician’s membership on the medical staff of defendant hospital, the superior court granted plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction, ordering that he be given notice and hearing of the termination pursuant to the hospital’s bylaws, and that he be temporarily reinstated to the medical staff pending the hearing. Defendants appeal from the order granting the preliminary injunction.

I

Plaintiff is an internist. In 1958, he became a member of the staff of defendant hospital and of two other…