LIS v. ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL

No. 77-2114.

579 F.2d 819 (1978)

Edwin J. LIS, Jr., Debbie T. Lis, and Jason Lis, infant, by his father, Edwin J. Lis, Jr., Appellants, v. The ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL, Guthrie Clinic, Ltd., Dr. Wayne H. Allen.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1978.

As Amended August 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. DeSisti, David B. Keeffe, DeSisti & Keeffe, Sayre, Pa., and Benjamin J. Bucko, Groton, N. Y., for appellants.

Joseph A. Quinn, Jr., Joseph J. Heston, Hourigan, Kluger & Spohrer Associates, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for appellees.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge and ALDISERT, Circuit Judge, and STERN, District Judge.


Submitted under Third Circuit Rule 12(6) April 26, 1978.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

The major questions presented in this appeal from an adverse jury verdict in a medical malpractice diversity case concern practices routinely followed by the district judge in his conduct of trials. While we hold that these practices, which relate to cross examination and bifurcation of trial, offend the...

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