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Federal court rejects qualified immunity for hospital employees in equal protection discrimination suit

The United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, ­affirmed a district court's refusal to grant qualified ­immunity to a county-owned hospital's board members in a discrimination suit brought by three interventional cardiologists of Indian descent. The plaintiff cardiologists alleged their due process and equal protection rights were violated by the CEO and members of the board of directors of Citizens Medical Center after the board enacted a resolution requiring physicians to enter into a contract with the hospital to exercise clinical privileges in the cardiology department.

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