Legal Opinion
Jit Kim Lim, M.D. v. Central Dupage Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 30, 1989No. 88-1267PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Jit Kim Lim is an Asian-American neurosurgeon whose staff privileges at Central DuPage Hospital, a private hospital in Illinois, were revoked. Claiming that the revocation was due (in part) to his race and therefore violated his rights under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1982, and 1985(3), Lim brought suit against the hospital and members of its medical staff. His principal— now, perhaps, his only — claim was that the defendants had deprived him of property in violation of these statutes. The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that hospital staff privileges…
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