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 Whether a hospital's alleged failure to timely diagnose and treat a patient's sepsis constitutes medical malpractice under state law and violates the …
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 Whether the emergency imperative of EMTALA displaces a State Law medical malpractice exception and requires proper emergency patient treatment
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 EMTALA ends when the patient is admitted or requires full stabilization before release
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 Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts state regulations of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that govern plan administra…
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 Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures
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 entitled to statutory due-process?
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
21-7111 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…
21-5246 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 To what degree must standard psychiatry protocols be followed in the event of an involuntary commitment, transfer, discharge?
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 create ambiguities?
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 Whether HIPAA's Privacy Rule is unconstitutional as applied by respondents
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?
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 Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
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 Whether the involuntary civil commitment of a non-dangerous individual violates due process and the Eighth Amendment
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?
19-677 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 Do abortion providers have Article III standing to assert the rights of their patients?
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 Can abortion providers have third-party standing to challenge health and safety regulations?