Jones v. Wake County Hospital System, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to rule on punitive damages issue on a 12(b)(6) motion
• “appropriate medical screening” is “not designed to redress an incorrect diagnosis by a hospital; instead, it is merely an entitlement to receive the same treatment that is accorded to others similarly situated”
• “[W]hether or not a party can recover punitive damages goes to the issue of the relief the plaintiff may ultimately be due. It has no bearing on the validity of the cause of action set out in plaintiff’s complaint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).