District Court, E.D. Kentucky September 23, 1981, 6:06-misc-00016 (Ott v. St. Luke Hospital of Campbell County, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

This case requires this court to employ the broad policy-creating powers granted to it by Rule 501 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to determine whether a privilege for the deliberations of public hospital peer review committees, which determine doctors’ applications for staff privileges, is desirable under “the principles of the common law as they