Leflore v. Sea Breeze Nursing Home (Summary)

Leflore v. Sea Breeze Nursing Home, No. Civ. 98-1136-AH-S (S.D. Ala. May 8, 2000)

Physician brought suit against defendant nursing home and its administrator and medical director alleging racial discrimination in the termination of his patient visitation privileges. The court dismissed the physician’s claims determining that the nursing home had produced legitimate non-discriminatory reasons for the termination. Specifically, the nursing home alleged that the physician had threatened a nursing home resident, an elderly confused double amputee, by raising his cane over the patient’s head and stating “you hit me … and I will hit you back,” an allegation that the physician did not dispute.