Kelly-Nevils v. Detroit Receiving Hospital

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 hospital need not conduct an investigation to ascertain that the signatory is legally authorized to consent, and that the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act imposes no such duty to investigate
• holding question of good faith under UAGA properly matter of law for court
• “Following the lead of the New York and Pennsylvania courts, we also hold that the question of good faith under the UAGA is properly a matter of law for the court”
• good faith immunity must affirmatively be pleaded by defendant
• hospital that harvested organs entitled to good faith immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).