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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. SIMPKINS

No. 96-CV-250.

720 A.2d 894 (1998)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Donna Wilson, Esquire, and Bernard Anderson, M.D., Appellants, v. Cuthbert O. SIMPKINS, M.D., Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 12, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin Draycott, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellants.

Barry Coburn, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and TERRY, Associate Judge, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.

GALLAGHER, Senior Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal1 by the District of Columbia, Bernard Anderson, M.D., and Donna Wilson, Esquire, from a trial court judgment declining to dismiss defamation claims brought against them by appellee, Dr. Simpkins, a former physician at the District of Columbia General Hospital ("the Hospital").2

The proceeding revolves around a charge by Dr. Simpkins that Donna...

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