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WATTS v. BURKHART

No. 89-6160.

978 F.2d 269 (1992)

Bobby WATTS, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John H. BURKHART, M.D., Howard R. Foreman, M.D., Alvin J. Ingram, M.D., I. Lee Arnold, M.D., and Duane C. Budd, M.D., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Barrick (argued and briefed) Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellee.

Jerry W. Taylor, Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., Debra K. Inglis, Asst. Atty. Gen., John Knox Walkup, Sol., and Myra L. Sanderson, and Kent E. Krause, Brewer, Krause & Brooks, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; KENNEDY, MARTIN, JONES, MILBURN, GUY, NELSON, RYAN, BOGGS, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents a question on which there has been a sharp conflict between our circuit and others: whether the members of a state medical licensing board, when sued individually for damages in connection with the board's suspension or revocation of a physician's license, are protected by quasi-judicial immunity.

Relying on our decision in Manion v. Michigan Bd. of Medicine, 765 F.2d 590

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