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STONE v. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORP.

No. 89-1023.

948 F.2d 128 (1991)

H. Harlan STONE, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellee, The Baltimore Sun Company, Appellant, v. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION; John Dennis; Morton I. Rapoport; Edward Brandt, Jr.; Susan Gillette; Mary Humphries, Defendants-Appellees, Maryland Hospital Association, Inc.; American Hospital Association, Amici Curiae, Frederick K. Toy, M.D.; Walter Pegoli, M.D., Appellees, and University of Maryland; University of Maryland School of Medicine, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1991.

As Amended November 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary R. Craig, argued (James J. Doyle, on brief), Doyle & Craig, P.A., Baltimore, Md., for appellant.

Diana Gribbon Motz, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, argued (Shale D. Stiller, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Ralph S. Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald L. DeVries, Jr., Craig B. Merkle, Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Gray, M. King Hill, and John R. Penhallegon, Smith, Somerville & Case, on brief), Baltimore, Md., for appellees.

Michael F. Anthony, Lawrence E. Singer, Ila S. Rothschild, Paul A. Hattis, Jeffrey M. Teske, American Hosp. Ass'n, Chicago, Ill., on brief, for amicus curiae American Hosp. Ass'n.

Andrew Radding, Jerome G. Geraghty, Francine R. Strauss, Blades & Rosenfeld, P.A., Baltimore, Md., on brief, for amici curiae Maryland Hosp. Ass'n.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

ERVIN, Chief Judge:

The Baltimore Sun Company ("the Sun") appeals the district court's seal order denying the Sun access to medical evaluation materials arising from the peer review committee investigation of Dr. H. Harlan Stone at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The district court held that these materials fall within the statutory protection of § 14-601 of the Health Occupations Article of the Maryland Code ("§ 14-601"...

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