BOYD v. BULALA

Nos. 88-2055, 88-2056.

905 F.2d 764 (1990)

Helen C. BOYD; Roger E. Boyd; Veronica Lynn Boyd, by her parents and next friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. R.A. BULALA, M.D., Defendant-Appellant, Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; Distressed Parents Together; Consumer Federation of America; Medical Society of Virginia, Amici Curiae. Helen C. BOYD; Roger E. Boyd; Veronica Lynn Boyd, by her parents and next friends, Helen Boyd & Roger E. Boyd, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; R.A. Bulala, M.D., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip C. Stone, Ronald D. Hodges, Wharton, Aldhizer & Weaver, Harrisonburg, Va., A.E. Dick Howard, Charlottesville, Va., Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., Gregory E. Lucyk, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for defendants-appellants.

William O.P. Snead, III, Fairfax, Va., J. Randolph Parker, Tucker, Parker & Beskin, Charlottesville, Va., Rosemarie Annunziata, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Vienna, Va., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Bill Wagner, Tampa, Fla., Jeffrey R. White, Washington, D.C., Fred D. Smith, Jr., Minor & Smith, Richmond, Va., for amici curiae The Ass'n of Trial Lawyers of America, Virginia Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Consumer Federation of America, and Distressed Parents Together.

Allen C. Goolsby, III, Patricia M. Schwarzschild, Robert Acosta-Lewis, Timothy A. Hartin, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Va., for amicus curiae The Medical Soc. of Virginia.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Judson P. Garrett, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert A. Zarnoch, Kathryn M. Rowe, Asst. Attys. Gen., Annapolis, Md., for amicus curiae State of Md.

John R. Bolton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert S. Greenspan, Scott R. McIntosh, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae U.S.

Before HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and WINTER, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This medical malpractice action returns to us after certification of several questions to the Supreme Court of Virginia. See Boyd v. Bulala, 877 F.2d 1191 (4th Cir.1989). That court recently issued an opinion answering those questions, and we are now able to decide the remaining issues in the appeal.

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