U.S. Court of Appeals upholds dismissal of physician's race discrimination action

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a hospital facing claims of racial discrimination from a physician. The Court ruled that the physician failed to establish that the hospital's reason for terminating his staff privileges was pretextual or that there was a "convincing mosaic" of circumstantial evidence that would allow a jury to infer intentional discrimination.

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