duty-of-care

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6052 David D. Richardson v. United States Third Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S JUDGMENT WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO AP…
24A205 Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-26 Presumed Complete casino-liability duty-of-care negligence premises-liability scooter-accident summary-judgment Whether a casino can be held liable under Mississippi premises liability law for injuries caused by a malfunctioning motorized scooter rented to a pat…
23-5614 Ellison O. Jordan v. The Pennsylvania State University, et al. Pennsylvania 2023-09-19 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process duty-of-care jury-trial negligence special-relationship standing student-athlete Was the Petitioner's constitutional right to jury trial denied or violated?
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 Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away?
20-6224 Brenda L. White v. Elite Beverages Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP addiction-treatment alcohol-abuse civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process duty-of-care employee-misconduct employer-responsibility employment-law reasonable-accommodation workplace-negligence workplace-safety Whether an employer has a duty to accommodate an employee with a known substance abuse problem
20-130 Hung Dang v. Washington Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission Washington 2020-08-07 Denied Response Waived duty-of-care first-amendment free-speech medical-licensing medical-quality-assurance physician-patient-relationship professional-speech statutory-interpretation Whether RCW 18.130.180(1) and (4), as construed and applied by the Washington Court of Appeals in the absence of a formal physician-patient relationsh…
19-7660 Ronald Blue West v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion breach-of-duty causation civil-rights constitutional-rights damages duty-of-care federal-tort-claims-act prisoner-protection subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's civil rights and FTCA claims for failure to allege a physical injury
19-6498 Andrea Rene'e Tootle v. Beaux Art Institute of Plastic Surgery, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abscess cellulitis civil-rights duty-of-care informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-harm plastic-surgery radiation-treatment standard-of-care surgical-consent tissue-expander Is defendant liable for harm, maime, disfigurement, misuse patient trust, use extreme care, practice outside the realm of plastic surgery, fail to per…
18-9500 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District of Oregon Oregon 2019-05-31 Denied IFP bus-accident carrier-liability civil-rights due-process duty-of-care evidence medical-evidence negligence public-transportation substance-impairment summary-judgment tort Issues being raised
18-97 Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC California 2018-07-23 Denied clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics Whether a drug company has a duty to stop a clinical study and refer a participant to medical care when it is aware the participant is suffering from …