Ong v. Tovey

552 F.2d 305 William T. ONG, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James TOVEY, M.D., Surgery, Karl Urbach, M.D., Director, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, San Francisco, California, Frederick Dykstra, Chief, Medical Education, Frederick Burris, M.D., Assistant Chief, Surgery, James Kauth, M.D., Assistant Chief, Surgery, James Goebel, M.D., Assistant Chief, Surgery and Chief, Urology, Caspar N. Weinberger, Secretary, U.S. Dept. H.E.W., the Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants. No. 76-1658. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. April 19, 1977. Richard F. Locke, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., argued, for defendants-appellants. John C. Brittain, San Francisco, Cal., Moore & Bell, Oakland, Cal., argued, for plaintiff-appellee; Harold E. McDermid, San Francisco, Cal., appeared. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before KENNEDY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and BURNS, * District Judge. J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge: 1 This is an appeal by the Public Health Service (PHS) from a district court decision and permanent injunction which reinstated…