5th Circuit: Trial Court Must Reconsider Army Hospital Surgeon’s Retaliation Claim

(November 1, 2023, 3:42 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A trial court properly rejected age bias allegations by an Army hospital surgeon in his 70s who was removed from his post as chief of surgery but erred in finding that that the surgeon failed to establish a prima facie case of retaliation in connection with some of his actions taken after his clinical privileges were placed in abeyance, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, remanding for the lower court to consider whether the Army provided a legitimate and non-pretextual reason for the action....