Legal Opinion
Bobby Watts, M.D. v. John H. Burkhart, M.D., Howard R. Foreman, M.D., Alvin J. Ingram, M.D., I. Lee Arnold, M.D., and Duane C. Budd, M.D.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 28, 1992No. 89-6160PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a question on which there has been a sharp conflict between our circuit and others: whether the members of a state medical licensing board, when sued individually for damages in connection with the board’s suspension or revocation of a physician’s license, are protected by quasi-judicial immunity.
Relying on our decision in Manion v. Michigan Bd. of Medicine, 765 F.2d 590 (6th Cir.1985), the district court answered the question in the negative. A majority of the three-judge panel that initially heard this phase of the case on appeal concluded…
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