Raju v. Rhodes

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Seshadri Raju, M.D., appeals a district court order granting Defendant Robert Rhodes, M.D., summary judgment on the ground that Raju was collaterally estopped from relitigating his claims in district court. We affirm. 1

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FACTS AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

Seshadri Raju, M.D., is a professor of surgery on the faculty of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (“UMC”) in Jackson, Mississippi. He has been employed there since 1972 pursuant to a contract with the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher…