CROSBY v. HOSP. AUTH. OF VALDOSTA & LOWNDES COUNTY

No. 95-8187.

93 F.3d 1515 (1996)

R. Derry CROSBY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF VALDOSTA AND LOWNDES COUNTY, D/B/A South Georgia Medical Center, Earl L. Creech, M.D., John R. Kendrick, M.D., Oscar E. Aguero, M.D., Archie L. Griffin, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 11, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Ellerbee, The Ellerbee Law Firm, P.C., Valdosta, GA, Lewis H. Markowitz, Markowitz & Markowitz, P.C., York, PA, James Ponsoldt, Athens, GA, for Appellant.

William Gus Elliott, Valdosta, GA, Joseph William Watkins, Sidney F. Wheeler, Jacquelyn D. Van Tuyl, Atlanta, GA, for Hospital Authority & Lowndes County.

Kevin E. Grady, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae — Ga. Hospital Association.

Joshua L. Prober, McCullough, Campbell & Lane, Chicago, Illinois, for Amicus Curiae — American Osteopathic Association.

Before ANDERSON and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a doctor, R. Derry Crosby, who was denied staff privileges by the Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County ("the Authority"). Dr. Crosby claimed that the Authority, its board members, and the individual doctors on hospital peer review committees (collectively "defendants") violated federal antitrust law when they denied his application for hospital privileges.1 The district court granted...

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