medical-negligence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A823 Brij Mohan, et al. v. Jordan Watkins Seventh Circuit 2026-01-16 Application bivens-remedy due-process eighth-amendment federal-tort-claims-act medical-negligence prisoner-rights Question not identified.
24-6624 Frederick Stampone v. Brittian Amann, et al. Third Circuit 2025-02-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-negligence Whether the U.S. Supreme Court should review a case involving alleged constitutional rights violations and medical negligence related to cancer treatm…
24-641 Gavin de Becker, et al. v. UHS of Delaware, Inc., dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center Nevada 2024-12-12 Denied Response Waived covered-countermeasure healthcare-immunity medical-liability medical-negligence prep-act treatment-standards Does the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2005 provide immunity to medical providers for acts and omissions not directly related to …
24-6122 Frank E. Reid v. Corizon Health Services, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied IFP bodily-harm civil-rights damages-claim incarceration-conditions medical-negligence prisoner-rights Whether a prisoner can seek damages for alleged medical negligence that resulted in partial paralysis during incarceration
23-1267 David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire Whether the plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment right to due process was violated by seating a juror whose brother had been successfully treated by, and w…
23-738 Leasa Marie Wright v. City of Ponca City, Oklahoma, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-01-09 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-violation discovery due-process emergency-medical-care medical-negligence municipal-liability qualified-immunity spinal-cord-injury substantive-due-process Is it a violation of substantive due process for state medical personnel to actively and affirmatively inflict injury on a patient?
23-6237 Gregory I. Ezeani v. William Anderson, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-prisoner healthcare-denial immigration immigration-detention medical-negligence medical-treatment retaliation Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated when DHS/ICE unlawfully arrested him, denied him proper medical treatment, and failed to f…
23-142 Joe L. Adams v. Royal Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Fourth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction medical-negligence nursing-home-abuse nursing-home-reform-act pressure-ulcers pro-se-litigant standing Did the court of Appeal Err in Affirming the District Court Decision regarding Jurisdiction over Nursing-Home-Abuse-Cases
22-7366 Donald Joshua Smith v. Omoniyi Akintola Ninth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence toxic-exposure Why was Akintola not held medically responsible for examining, diagnosing, and treating plaintiff's medical conditions?
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 Whether the care received by the plaintiff constitutes fraudulent concealment
21-8065 Arthur Glenn Jones, Sr. v. Sam Wong, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit atrophy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process informed-consent judicial-discretion medical-care medical-negligence prisoner-rights psychotropic-medication standing Did the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals abuse its discretion?
21-7751 Timothy Littlejohn v. Dr. Dalton, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied IFP civil-rights disability due-process glaucoma-treatment judicial-discretion medical-negligence medical-treatment ophthalmology standing Whether the district court misapplied the governing legal rules concerning my constitutional right to be treated by ophthalmologists and did so by imp…
21-1353 Isabella Nartey v. Franciscan Health Hospital Seventh Circuit 2022-04-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-act disparate-treatment due-process emergency-medical-treatment medical-negligence supplemental-jurisdiction title-vi Whether Franciscan hospital violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
21-7179 Precious Wiley v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process eisenhower-army-medical-center federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice medical-negligence pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing wrongful-death Why did the district court dismiss the appellant's Federal Tort Claims Act complaint alleging wrongful death due to medical negligence?
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 Whether a delayed diagnosis of a medical problem that results in a patient's health condition worsening constitutes a cognizable injury under the Four…
21-6531 Billy Mack Nichols, Jr. v. Gary Kerstein, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment equal-protection medical-care medical-negligence summary-judgment Whether the lower courts failed to address the medical needs of the petitioner's central diabetes insipidus
21-399 Chester Lee Reneau v. Mary Cardinas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment medical-negligence prisoner-rights serious-medical-needs seventh-amendment summary-judgment Can prison doctors violate the Eighth Amendment by exposing prisoner's to the 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain?
21-5213 Zachary B. Taylor v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus medical-negligence mental-health veterans-affairs Whether the federal court, Harris County, GA Superior Court, lacked evidence to prove Petitioner Zachary Bouvier Taylor knowingly and intentionally gu…
20-6440 Benjamin K. Toscano v. Nancy Adam, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct legal-fabrication medical-negligence medical-treatment pain-and-suffering procedural-due-process spinal-injury Does respondent have the right to submit fabricated documents?
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 Whether a medical professional can be held liable for injuring a patient and abandoning them
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?
19-8610 Alfredo Masis Sancho v. Ebner Family Trust California 2020-06-05 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure disability-claim legal-damages medical-causation medical-negligence parkinson-disease parkinson's-disease parkinsonism rehabilitation sequel symptoms Whether the panel correctly decided that Parkinsonism does not produce Parkinson's disease
19-8587 Reginald Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment Whether a state law 'affidavit of merit' requirement applies in a federal court medical-negligence case governed by state substantive law
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 Has the surgeon committed a second criminal act by concealing the mistaken incision location and performing a second corrective surgery?
19-701 Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg Whether the 'professional judgment standard' articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to 'whether the worst doctor in America would say ok'
19-5966 Delbert Heard v. Andrew Tilden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process electronic-evidence medical-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence ostrich-defense prison-conditions prisoner-rights qualified-immunity surgical-delay Whether prison doctor can evade culpability for 8th Amendment violation for delay of prisoner's hernia surgery
19-5960 Ben W. Bane v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavits breach-of-duty civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-prisoner federal-tort-claims-act judicial-enforcement medical-negligence prisoner-rights procedural-requirements standing state-law state-law-preemption Whether a Federal District Court and the Appellant Court can enforce a Local State Law requiring affidavits for a federal prisoner's Federal Tort Clai…
19-5649 Terry Lee O'Brien v. Carla Hacker-Agnew, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment medical-negligence national-uniformity obstruction-of-justice prison-conditions standing statutory-interpretation What degree of interpretation of a constitution, statute, or authority of law is a question of law where there is a crisis case?
19-5282 James Odell Baxter, II v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ability-to-pay circuit-split civil-rights criminal-restitution due-process federal-tort-claims-act incarceration-damages medical-negligence mental-distress settlement-funds Did the D.C. Circuit err in affirming the order requiring payment of Federal Tort Claim settlement funds towards a criminal restitution order, when th…
18-9095 Michael Hall v. Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction hospital-status medical-negligence mental-health mental-hygiene-law new-york-state section-1915-review standing Clarification of the factual, exact and/or precise status of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center as a 'Private Hospital?
18-840 Steven Leon Banks v. Vincent Myron Gore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response Waived 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process medical-negligence personal-involvement pro-se-plaintiff pro-se-pleadings qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment supervisory-liability Whether supervisors can be liable for constitutional violations of subordinates even without direct personal involvement
18-5638 Deborah A. Purnell v. St. Mary's Hospital, et al. California 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process elder-abuse equal-protection freedom-of-information judicial-discrimination life-threatening-conditions medical-negligence reckless-medical-care reporter's-transcript Whether statutory elder abuse inherently includes acts of violence and brutalization, reckless medical care that causes life-threatening conditions su…