Paterson, N.J. – A Catholic hospital faces an anti-discrimination lawsuit for cancelling a surgery to remove a uterus from a female who identifies as a man. The surgery was meant to treat gender dysphoria. “This case involves whether a Catholic hospital can be compelled to perform a procedure that violates its sincerely-held religious beliefs,” Matt Sharp, legal counsel with Alliance Defending …
A $1.5 billion putative class action accusing Tenet Healthcare Corp. of failing to protect patients and newborns from being exposed to tuberculosis at one of its hospitals has been moved to federal court. The lawsuit, which could represent the families of 3,000 children delivered at Tenet’s Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus facility in El Paso, Texas, alleges hospital officials ignored a …
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday that accused Nevada officials and the state psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas of violating patients’ civil rights by giving them bus tickets and dumping them in other states. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said it could not consider the merits of the suit because the plaintiff, James Flavy Coy Brown, failed to raise a …
Yasser Awaad Depositions are underway for a potential jury trial next year for Yasser Awaad, M.D., a pediatric neurologist formerly with Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn who is accused in a class action lawsuit of falsely diagnosing epilepsy in hundreds of children in Southeast Michigan in the mid-2000s. Awaad has been compared by the attorneys of the children and their families …
The collapse of the plan to build a hotel and conference center next to St. Joseph’s hospital has resulted in the filing of a lawsuit on Thursday in which the would-be developer is seeking $400 million in damages from the medical center. An artist’s rendering of a hotel proposed for Paterson. The 51-page complaint by the nonprofit group that proposed building hotel alleges that St. …
Twenty-three people were sickened and one person died. Last month we talked with the family of Joe Butler, a 29-year-old, who contracted the severe form of pneumonia. He is now out of the hospital, but has a long road ahead of him.
Tatyana Phillips never imagined she would have to talk about her baby boy’s death. “I have nightmares regularly so I don’t get any sleep, sometimes I stay awake for days at a time,” said the young woman through tears. On Friday, Phillips sat in the office of her attorney, and recounted that how last fall, her baby boy lived for just minutes after being born.
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit filed against the state of Utah on behalf of several mentally ill prison inmates. The Disability Law Center is suing the state on behalf of three inmates in Utah jails, alleging that they’re being held unconstitutionally while they wait to get treatment at the Utah State Hospital. Aaron Kinikini is the center’s legal director.
Utah’s system of handling mentally ill criminal defendants appears to be failing, a federal judge said in allowing a civil rights lawsuit to proceed against the state. Because of a persistent backlog at the Utah State Hospital, people judged to be mentally incompetent to stand trail are stacked up in county jails awaiting treatment to restore their competency, the Disability …
A Stamford lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Griffin Hospital in Derby on behalf of more than 3,100 former patients who may face HIV or other blood-borne diseases as a result of hospital employees using the same insulin injection pens on patient after patient.