130 Cal.App.4th 729 (Cal. Ct. App. 2005) Cited 43 times
Concluding the physician plaintiff's allegations "against his coworkers present[ed] complex issues—a pattern of racist conduct intended to provide his minority patients with a lesser standard of care, and to interfere with his own ability to care of them," and, thus, further concluding that, unless the court presumed such allegations were unfounded, "which [it was] not permitted to do," the court could not "agree that the procedure outlined in [the hospital's bylaws], which, as in Glendale ..., ‘provides merely for the submission of the grievance form, without the taking of testimony, the submission of legal briefs, or resolution by an impartial finder of fact’ [was] adequate to resolve them"