Johnson v. Riverside Healcare

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHRISTOPHER LYNN JOHNSON, M.D., 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v.

RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, LP,

a California limited partnership, d/b/a Riverside Community Hospital; RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, LLC, a California limited No. 06-55280 liability corporation; COLUMBIA/ HCA WESTERN GROUP, INC., a  D.C. No.

CV-03-01392-ABC

Tennessee corporation, doing business in California; MEDICAL OPINION

STAFF OF RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY

HOSPITAL, a California unincorporated association; ROBERT

DUNCANSON, M.D.; LIBBY MARTIN;

BARBARA MARSHALL; GAY

DICKINSON; PATRICIA LEMMLE; EARL

TATE; MICHAEL RAWLINGS,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Audrey B. Collins, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 18, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed February 13, 2008

1295 1296 JOHNSON v. RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Michael W. Mosman,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

*The Honorable Michael W. Mosman,…