Clark v. Children's Memorial Hosp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[a] child who is born with a genetic or congenital condition does not have a cause of action * * * against a health care provider whose breach of the standard of care ‘precluded an informed parental decision to avoid his conception or birth’”
• failing to diagnose older child with Angelman Syndrome due to an inherited gene mutation but representing to parents that the child’s condition was not caused by a genetic abnormality
• reversing previous decision disallowing damages for emotional distress in wrongful birth cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).