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CHAKRABARTI v. COHEN

Nos. 92-1987, 92-1988.

31 F.3d 1 (1994)

Kishanlal CHAKRABARTI, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Joseph L. COHEN, M.D., and Michael J. Gill, M.D., Defendants, Appellants. Kishanlal CHAKRABARTI, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Joseph L. COHEN, M.D., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. Mullen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Government Bureau, Trial Div., with whom Scott Harshbarger, Atty. Gen., Boston, MA, was on briefs, for defendants.

Robert LeRoux Hernandez, Malden, MA, for plaintiff.

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

Dr. Kishanlal Chakrabarti served as a staff psychiatrist at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital ("the hospital"), a facility of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In this suit he sought redress for his discharge by the hospital, and won a jury award of $75,000. Both sides appeal. We affirm.

The background facts are straightforward. Born in India and trained in England, Chakrabarti joined the staff of the hospital in 1979 and worked...

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