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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND JOE DEAN CRAWFORD v. : SYDNEY B. SEIDMAN, M.D., et al. : MEMORANDUM Before the Court is Defendants' Motion to Dismiss. No. 14. Paper : : Civil Action WMN-00-13

Also pending are a number of motions filed by Plaintiff

including several motions for "judicial notice" of certain statutes and judicial opinions, Paper Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23, and 27, as well as a motion for partial summary judgment, Paper Nos. 29 and 30. Plaintiff's "judicial notice" pleadings are more in

the nature of oppositions to Defendants' motion to dismiss and while considered by the Court as such, will be denied as motions per se. For the reasons that follow, Defendants' motion to

dismiss will be granted and Plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment will be denied. This action arises out of the alleged wrongful denial of Plaintiff's application for a license to practice medicine in the State of Maryland. Plaintiff presented this same dispute to this See Crawford v.

Court in much the same form several years ago. Paris, 897 F.Supp. 928 (D. Md. 1995).

As Judge Messitte

provided a relatively comprehensive description of the factual and procedural background of Plaintiff's claims in his opinion

dismissing Plaintiff's prior complaint, a full rehearsal of that background will not be repeated here.1 relevant facts are as follows. Plaintiff was once licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina. In February 1982, the Medical Board of Very briefly, the

North Carolina requested that Plaintiff submit to a psychiatric examination as a condition of retaining that license. Rather

than submit to such an examination, Plaintiff wrote to the Board on March 30, 1982, stating that he was "sadly choosing to surrender his license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina." Plaintiff never physically surrendered the license to

the North Carolina Board, however, a fact to which Plaintiff would later attach great significance. In June 1986, Plaintiff applied for a medical license in the State of Maryland. In October 1986, the Maryland Board of

Medical Examiners (the Board) informed Plaintiff that, based upon his previous surrender of his North Carolina license, the Board would deny his application pursuant to

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