Hui Ru Weng v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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

• “Obviously, very young children will not have the same understanding or incentive as adults when making statements to persons providing health care.”
• statement to doctor who introduced self as “Kathy” and as “just another mommy” inadmissible under this exception
• retroactivity of Supreme Court decision in Solorio v. United States, 483 U.S. 435, 107 S.Ct. 2924, 97 L.Ed.2d 364 (1987)
• “Obviously, very young children will not have the same understanding or incentive as adults when making statements to persons providing health care.”
• “[U]nless it appears that the child knows at least that the person is rendering care and needs the information in order to help, the rationale for the [medical] exception disappears entirely.”
• “[Ujnless it appears that the child knows at least that the person is rendering care and needs the information in order to help, the rationale for the [medical] exception disappears entirely.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).