Decisions about Hospital Staff Privileges: A Case for Judicial Deference

See, e.g., Darling v. Charleston Community Hosp. , 211 N.E.2d 253 (Ill. 1965), cert. denied, 383 U.S. 946 (1966). Prior to Darling, corporate liability did not present a significant threat to hospitals. The Darling line of cases has extended corporate liability of hospitals for negligence in selection and retention of medical staff members.

U.S. Const. amend. V, amend. XIV.

See, e.g., Meredith v. Allen County War Memorial Hosp. Comm'n, 397 F.2d 33, 35 (6th Cir. 1968); State ex rel. Sams v. Ohio Valley General Hosp. Ass'n (Sams I), 140 S.E.2d 457, 463 (W. Va. 1965), rev'd on other grounds, 413 F.2d 826 (4th Cir. 1969).

See, e.g., Shulman v. Washington Hosp. Ctr., 222 F. Supp. 59, 63 (D.D.C. 1963), remanded with instructions, 348 F.2d 70 (D.C. Cir. 1965), aff'd on rehearing, 319 F. Supp. 252 (D.D.C. 1970).

Sams I, supra note 3, at 463; Khoury v. Community Memorial Hosp., Inc. , 123 S.E.2d 533, 539 (W. Va. 1962).

Rao v. Auburn Gen. Hosp., 517 P.2d 240, 242 (Wash. App. 1973).

Sams v. Ohio Valley Gen. Hosp. Ass'n (Sams II), 413 F.2d 826 (4th Cir. 1969).

Modaber v. Culpeper Memorial Hosp., Inc. , 674 F.2d 1023 (4th Cir. 1982).

Bello v. South Shore Hosp., 429 N.E.2d 1011, 1014 (Mass. 1981).

Peterson v. Tucson Gen. Hosp., Inc. , 559 P.2d 185 (Ariz. App. 1977); Shulman v. Washington Hosp. Ctr., supra note 4, at 63.

See, e.g., Ascherman v. San Francisco Medical Soc'y, 114 Cal. Rptr. 681, 696 (Cal. App. 1974).

Lewin v. St. Joseph Hosp. of Orange, 146 Cal. Rptr. 892, 906 (Cal. App. 1978).

See, e.g., Davis v. Morristown Memorial Hosp., 254 A.2d 125, 130 (N.J. 1969), quoting Greisman v. Newcomb Hosp., 192 A.2d 817, 825 (N.J. 1963).

Garrow v. Elizabeth Gen. Hosp., 401 A.2d 533, 541 (N.J. 1979).

Hospital Bldg. Co. v. Trustees of Rex Hosp. , 425 U.S. 738 (1976).

See, e.g., Crane v. Intermountain Health Care , 637 F.2d 715 (10th Cir. 1981); Robinson v. Magovern, 521 F. Supp. 842 (W.D. Pa. 1981); Zamiri v. William Beaumont Hosp., 430 F. Supp. 875 (E.D. Mich. 1977). See also Kissam P.C. , Antitrust and Hospital Privileges: Testing the Conventional Wisdom, California Law Review 70: 595, 600 n.18 (1982).

See, e.g., Schlein v. Milford Hosp., 423 F. Supp. 541, 543 n.1 (D. Conn. 1976), aff'd, 561 F.2d 427 (2nd Cir. 1977). Contra Unterthiner v. Desert Hosp. Dist., 188 Cal. Rptr. 590, 597–98 (Cal. Sup. 1983).

Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 577 (1972).

Hayman v. City of Galveston, 273 U.S. 414, 416–17 (1927); Sosa v. Board of Managers of Val Verde Memorial Hosp., 437 F.2d 173, 175 (5th Cir. 1971) [hereinafter referred to as Sosa]; Woodbury v. McKinnon, 447 F.2d 839, 842 (5th Cir. 1971).

See, e.g., Stretten v. Wadsworth Veterans Hosp., 537 F.2d 361, 365–66 (9th Cir. 1976).

Board of Regents v. Roth, supra note 18, at 572, citing Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399 (1922).

Board of Regents v. Roth, supra note 18, at 573 (1972).

Cray , Due Process Considerations in Hospital Staff Privilege Cases, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 7: 217, 235 (1979). See Schlein v. Milford Hosp., supra note 17, at 543 n.1.

See Cray , supra note 23.

424 U.S. 693 (1976).

Id. at 711.

See, e.g., Stretten v. Wadsworth Veterans Hosp., supra note 20, at 365.

See, e.g., Peterson v. Tucson Gen. Hosp., Inc., 559 P.2d 186 (Ariz. App. 1977); Woodbury v. McKinnon, 447 F.2d 839 (5th Cir. 1971).

Sosa, supra note 19, at 177.

Id.

Mauer v. Highland Park Hosp. Foundation, 232 N.E.2d 776, 779 (Ill. App. 1967).

Branch v. Hempstead County Memorial Hosp., 539 F. Supp. 908, 918–19 (W.D. Ark. 1982).

See, e.g., Woodbury v. McKinnon, supra note 27; Truly v. Madison Gen. Hosp., 673 F.2d 763 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 103 S. Ct. 214 (1982); Ezekial v. Winkley, 142 Cal. Rptr. 418, 425–26 (Cal. 1977); Branch v. Hempstead County Memorial Hosp., supra note 32, at 916.

Garrow , supra note 14.

Sosa , supra note 19, at 177; Schlein v. Milford Hosp., supra note 17, at 544.

See, e.g., Lewin v. St. Joseph Hosp. of Orange, supra note 12, at 902–03.

Pick v. Santa Ana-Tustin Community Hosp. , 182 Cal. Rptr. 85, 91 n.6 (Cal. App. 1982); Lewin v. St. Joseph Hosp. of Orange, supra note 12, at 900–03.

Franz v. Board of Medical Quality Assurance, 181 Cal. Rptr. 732, 739 n.6 (Cal. 1982), citing Davis, Administrative Law Treatise §15.1 (2nd ed. 1980).

See, e.g., Laje v. R.E. Thomason Gen. Hosp., 564 F.2d 1159, 1162 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 437 U.S. 905 (1978).