Heimlicher v. Steele

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that hospitals do not have a duty to stabilize patients suffering from an emergency medical condition, including pregnant woman in labor, absent knowledge of the emergency medical condition
• analyzing admissibility of photographs provided to court shortly before trial commenced
• “Under subsection (c)(1)(A)® of the Act, a written request for transfer authorizes a hospital to transfer a patient with an emergency medical condition that has not been stabilized to another hospital. A consent to transfer does not give a hospital this authority.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).