patient-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A310 Ryan Thomas Thornton v. Ascension All Saints Hospital, et al. Wisconsin 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete hospital-negligence informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-rights sepsis standard-of-care Question not identified.
25-22 Ricky Koel v. Citizens Medical Center, Inc., et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split emergency-treatment emtala hospital-liability medical-malpractice patient-rights 1. Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception just as the EMTALA emergency imperative displaced a …
24-689 Randal Jerome Dalavai, as Successor in Interest to Decedent Geetha Dalavai and son of Geetha Dalavai v. The Regents, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-split emergency-medicine emtala hospital-liability medical-standard-of-care patient-rights Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the…
23A788 Glen Mulready, et al. v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete erisa-preemption health-care-access insurance-law patient-rights pharmacy-benefit-managers state-regulation Question not identified.
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject 1. Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures by a physician in …
22-626 Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry (the Board) entitled to the statutory due process as plainly stated in 45 CFR § 164.508, and MN S…
22-5266 Elizabeth Downing, as Administrator of the Estate of Linda Berry v. Paul Grossman, et al. Iowa 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment informed-consent kidney-tumor medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights statute-of-limitations statute-of-repose 1.) How is it not viable that all the care Linda Berry received from October 1, 2009 until December 31, 2009 not be considered fraudulent concealment?…
21-7111 David Roy Worthy v. Corizon Medical Group, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP civil-rights delayed-diagnosis due-process government-liability informed-consent medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-harm patient-rights professional-liability standard-of-care When a delayed diagnosis is in effect, shouldn't the Dept. of Corrections be responsible?
21-5246 Jeffrey Ferguson v. Cook County Correctional Facility/Cermak, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process emergency-care involuntary-commitment mental-health patient-rights 1.) To what degree are standard psychiatry protocols to be followed in the event of an emergency commitment, transfer, discharge, and after-care plann…
20-8297 Michael Doyle Ruggles v. David Y. Ige, Governor of Hawaii, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-responsibility due-process equal-protection legal-ambiguity medical-cannabis patient-rights state-law state-responsibility vague-laws Does the State of Hawaii have a constitutional responsibility to draft laws that do not stand silent and create ambiguities? Hawaii's medical cannabis…
20-6834 Cynthia Holmes v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services Fourth Circuit 2021-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process health-privacy healthcare-compliance HIPAA hipaa-privacy medical-privacy patient-rights physician-liability state-law state-law-preemption As applied by respondents in this case and in its ongoing pattern and practice, HIPAA's Privacy Rule cannot pass constitutional muster; respondents' w…
20-6378 Brenda L. White v. Wishard Hospital Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-trust equipment-failure medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights patient-safety physical-therapy standard-of-care Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? Should a medical professional be held accountable for unreasonable tr…
20-6223 Brenda L. White v. Tavel Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP duty-of-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence patient-rights professional-accountability professional-liability remedial-damages standard-of-care 1. Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away? 2. Should a medical professional be held accountable for unreasonab…
20-5707 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing 1. Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants? 2. Is it legal for a medic…
19-7449 Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review 1. Is OLONOVOR V. DONALDSON, 422 US. [?] a Valid Legal Precedent for Due Process? 2. Is FOURIER V. LOUISIANA, 504 US. 71 77-1780 (1992) still Valid? …
19-6872 James Ray Clark v. UNC Hospitals, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-05 Denied IFP civil-rights cover-up criminal-act criminal-law due-process healthcare-liability institutional-cover-up medical-malpractice medical-misconduct medical-negligence negligence patient-rights IF A DOCTOR PERFORMS EMERGENCY SURGERY ON A PETITIONER IN A COMA AND MAKES AN INCISION AT AN INCORRECT LOCATION, THEN STITCHES UP THE WOUND AND MAKES …
19-677 Dave Yost, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 42-usc-1988 abortion-providers abortion-rights article-iii article-iii-standing attorney-fees civil-rights patient-rights preliminary-injunction prevailing-party standing statutory-interpretation 1. Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients? 2. When, if ever, does a plaintiff who wins a preliminary …
18-1460 Stephen Russo, Interim Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals v. June Medical Services L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-23 Judgment Issued Amici (4) abortion abortion-providers abortion-regulations civil-rights due-process health-and-safety-regulations health-regulations health-safety-law legal-standing patient-relationship patient-rights patient-standing prudential-standing standing third-party third-party-standing 1. Can abortion providers be presumed to have third-party standing to challenge health and safety regulations on behalf of their patients absent a "cl…