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BRISCOE v. BOCK

No. 76-1055.

540 F.2d 392 (1976)

Dr. John R. BRISCOE, Appellant, v. Edward J. BOCK et al., Trustees of Deaconess Hospital, and the Evangelical Deaconess Society of St. Louis, d/b/a Deaconess Hospital, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Staed, St. Louis, Mo., argued on brief, for appellant.

Albert A. Michenfelder, J. William Newbold, Clayton, Mo., on brief, for appellees.

Cullen Coil, Jefferson City, Mo., on brief, for amici curiae Missouri Hospital Ass'n.

Edward W. Sumner, Jr., and James L. Nouss, Sumner, Hanlon, Sumner, MacDonald & Nouss, Clayton, Mo., for amici curiae Hospital Assn. of Metropolitan St. Louis.

Before HEANEY and HENLEY, Circuit Judges, and SCHATZ, District Judge.

HENLEY, Circuit Judge.

Dr. John R. Briscoe of St. Louis, Missouri plaintiff below and appellant here, brought this action against the members of the Board of Trustees of Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis and the Hospital itself alleging that in 1974 he had been terminated as a member of the staff of the Hospital in violation of rights secured to him by the Constitution of the United States and in violation of alleged private contractual rights.

The suit was...

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