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Tenth Circuit· 8/6/1992

Johnson ex rel. Johnson v. Thompson

Citations

  • 971 F.2d 1487

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  • holding infants born with spina bifida do not have a substantive due process right to adequate medical treatment
  • for Rehabilitation Act claims, “[t]he word solely provides the key: the discrimination must result from the [disability] and from the [disability] alone.”
  • that plaintiffs received some treatment did not entitle them to further treatment

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Judges: Ebel, Holloway, Owen

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