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SMITH v. CLEBURNE COUNTY HOSP.

No. B-C-77-49.

667 F.Supp. 644 (1987)

Dr. Wayne SMITH, Plaintiff, v. CLEBURNE COUNTY HOSPITAL, Sam B. Rector, Individually and as Administrator of the Cleburne County Hospital; the Board of Governors — V.H. Dickson, Chairman, County Judge Delane Wright, Ex-Officio Member, Larry Crabtree, Secretary, D.E. Barnett, Thomas Whitaker, J.M. Stuart, B.J. McNair, Oscar Patchell, Rodney A. Peterson, Don Verser, Charles Evans, Elaine Ellibee, Millard Fletcher, Loreen Houston, Vernon H. Wold, Wincle Forest, Roger Morin and Glenwood B. Achorn, Members — and the Medical Staff consisting of Doctors William M. Wells, Michael E. Barnett, Max Baldridge, William H. Nevins, Nathan L. Poff, Donald H. McClanahan, Harrol L. Cranford, Joe B. Scruggs, Robert Clark, Steve Blackburn, Jim Ashabramer, Robert R. Wilson and H.C. Williams, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, W.D.

August 10, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Lavey, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiff.

David L. Williams, Rose Law Firm, Frank J. Willis, III, Barber Law Firm, Walter Paulson, Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., District Judge.

On February 14, 1985, this Court found that plaintiff's medical staff privileges at the Cleburne County Hospital were revoked because plaintiff publicly criticized the patient care afforded patrons at the hospital; that the criticism was protected conduct under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution; and that defendants had failed to demonstrate that plaintiff...

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