Ayash v. Dana Farber Cancer Institute

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (“the Institute”) and David M. Livingston (collectively, “the DFCI defendants”), two of the defendants in this action, have moved for entry of a protective order “to preserve the confidentiality of medical peer review proceedings, reports and records as mandated by Mass.Gen.L.c. Ill, §§203-05.” The plaintiff, Lois Ayash, M.D. (“Ayash”) and defendants The Boston Globe and Richard A. Knox (“the Globe defendants”) oppose the DFCI defendants’ motion on grounds that it is over broad, includes nonprivileged documents within its scope, and includes documents as…