Legal Opinion
Onat v. Penobscot Bay Medical Center
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided May 4, 1990PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLASSMAN, Justice.
Mustafa V. Onat, M.D., appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendants on an order of the Superior Court (Knox County, Smith, J.) in Onat’s consolidated actions against Penobscot Bay Medical Center (“the hospital”) and some of its employees and affiliated physicians 1 who, as participants in the hospital’s peer review process, voted to suspend Onat’s staff privileges because of concerns about his standards of medical practice. Onat contends that the court erred because issues of material fact remain on all of his claims. 2 In reviewing the extensive record…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Tuttle v. RaymondSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1985
- Dr. Eileen T. MENDEZ, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Dr. Robert BELTON, Presbyterian Hospital, Et Al., Defendants, AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1984
- Bello v. South Shore HospitalMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Penobscot Area Housing Development Corp. v. City of BrewerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Lester v. PowersSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1991
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