SHAHAWY v. HARRISON

No. 87-3408.

875 F.2d 1529 (1989)

Mahfouz El SHAHAWY, M.D., M.S., F.A. C.C. Individually and Mahfouz El Shahawy, M.D., P.A., a Florida Professional Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William T. HARRISON, Jr., Individually, F. Edwards Rushton, M.D., Individually, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bailey & Hunt, a Professional Ass'n, Jesse C. Jones, Stephen E. Nagin, Law Office of Stephen Nagin, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mike Piscitelli, C. Lawrence Stagg, Dennis R. Ferguson, Stagg, Hardy & Yerrid, P.A., Tampa, Fla., James Burgess, Syprett, Meshad, Resnick & Lieb, Sarasota, Fla., for Sarasota County Hosp. Bd., Harrison, Bowman, Matthews, Floyd, Rard, French and Tollerton.

Richard Garland, Dickinson, O'Riorden, Gibbons, Quale, Shields and Carlton, P.A., G. Hunter Gibbons, Claire Hamner, Sarasota, Fla., for Rushton, Carlson, Page, Sarkis, Silverstein, Stutz, Ronnuswamy, Natarajan, Mathews, Myers, Chidsey & Fleegler.

Donald W. Stanley, Marlow, Shofi, Smith, Hennen, Smith & Jenkins, Tampa, Fla., for David Bowman.

Mary Lau, Lau, Lane, Pieper & Asti, P.A., Tampa, Fla., for Delmastro.

Frank Strelec, Dart, Ford, Strelec, Spivey & Bennett, Sarasota, Fla., for C. Ted French.

Before HATCHETT and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Circuit Judge.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

Antitrust, civil rights, and defamation rulings are reviewed in this case arising from a public hospital board's termination of a physician's medical staff membership and other privileges. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I. FACTS

In November, 1982, appellants, Mahfouz El Shahawy and his medical association, brought this action against the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, the hospital's medical review committee...

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