Legal Opinion
Doctor Robert Sosa v. Board of Managers of the Val Verde Memorial Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 16, 1971No. 29458PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case poses the problem of the conflict between the right of a doctor to be on the staff of a hospital and the obligation of the hospital to exact professional competence and-the ethical spirit of Hippocrates as conditions precedent to such staff privileges.
Dr. Robert Sosa brought this suit against the Board of Managers of the Val Verde Memorial Hospital, claiming that the Board had violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in denying him admission to the Medical Staff of the hospital.
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2Cases cited13 opinions
- Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Hayman v. City of GalvestonSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- 9 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1065, 1 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 9776 Goerge C. Cypress, Darnell Jackson, an Infant, Who Sues by Dorothy Wright, His Mother and Next Friend, and Sandra Rose Clark, an Infant, Who Sues by Julia Clark, Her Mother and Next Friend v. The Newport News General and Nonsectarian Hospital Association, Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation, Charles K. Hutchens, Registered Agent and Nelson L. St. Clair, Jr., Administrator, Riverside HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- James E. Sams, Jack L. Paradise, and Daniel J. Birmingham v. Ohio Valley General Hospital Association, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
- Citta v. Delaware Valley HospitalDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1970
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3Cited by106 opinions
- Smith v. Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
- Barry G. Lew, M.D. v. Kona HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Freilich v. Upper Chesapeake Health, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2002
- Philip S. Woodbury v. Neil McKinnon ChairmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Cameron v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Inc.Court of Appeals of North Carolina · 1982
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