No. 18-132

Jamie Elmhirst v. McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, dba Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al.

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-07-31
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: appropriate-medical-screening circuit-split due-process emergency-medical-treatment-and-active-labor-act emtala hospital-liability intent-standard legislative-history medical-screening motive-requirement roberts-v-galen-of-virginia statutory-interpretation
Latest Conference: 2018-10-05
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether, when determining if a hospital has complied with the "appropriate medical screening" requirement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, the court should hold that liability attaches independent of the defendant's motivation, as five circuits have held, or impose the requirement of malicious intent found only in the Sixth Circuit's cases and questioned by this Court.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the court should hold that liability under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act attaches independent of the defendant's motivation, or impose the requirement of malicious intent found only in the Sixth Circuit's cases

Docket Entries

2018-10-09
Petition DENIED.
2018-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/5/2018.
2018-08-30
Brief of respondents McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, /d/b/a Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al. in opposition filed.
2018-07-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 30, 2018)

Attorneys

JAMIE ELMHIRST
Albert James DibJefferson Law Center, Petitioner
McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital, d/b/a Northern Michigan Emergency Medicine Center, et al.
Michael Lee Van ErpJohnson & Wyngaarden, P.C., Respondent