Legal Opinion
Chakrabarti v. Cohen
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 28, 1994No. 92-1987, 92-1988PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Kishanlal Chakrabarti served as a staff psychiatrist at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital (“the hospital”), a facility of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In this suit he sought redress for his discharge by the hospital, and won a jury award of $75,-000. Both sides appeal. We affirm.
The background facts are straightforward. Born in India and trained in England, Chak-rabarti joined the staff of the hospital in 1979 and worked initially in its geriatric psychiatry unit. In the early 1980s, another facility — this one managed by a different state agency — was…
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