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DE LEON v. ST. JOSEPH HOSP., INC.

No. 88-1018.

871 F.2d 1229 (1989)

Jose S. DE LEON, M.D.; Maria G. De Leon, his wife, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL, INC.; William L. Macon, IV, M.D., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard J. Schulman, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Catherine Angela Potthast (John G. Prendergast, Jr., Barry Bach, Smith, Somerville & Case, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WIDENER, MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Once again this court must consider a medical doctor's attempt by an action for defamation to counter a hospital's denial of staff privileges. See Sibley v. Lutheran Hospital, 871 F.2d 479 (4th Cir.1989). Once again we find the effort futile.

Jose S. De Leon, M.D., a surgeon, completed his residency at St. Joseph's Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and was subsequently employed by it on a contractual...

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