Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “subsections (a) [the duty to screen] and (b) [the duty to stabilize] of EMTALA operate disjunctively”
• explaining that the facts of the case presented “no occasion to address ... looming issues” that might become relevant in other contexts
• “Nothing in the subsection’s text suggests a necessary relationship between a hospital’s obligations and the identity of the department within the hospital to which the afflicted individual presents himself.”
• rejecting a conjunctive reading of the duties set forth in EMTALA
• “[s]ubsection (a) requires hospitals to provide appropriate screening for individuals who seek assistance at an emergency department of a covered hospital, whereas subsection (b

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Cited by

64 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ruiz v. Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp.
  First Circuit· 2007-07-30· cited 365×
• Bernie Harry, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lisa Normil, Deceased v. Wayne Marchant, M.D., Ali Bazzi, M.D.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-05-16· cited 130×
• Ninigret Development Corp. v. Narragansett Indian Wetuomuck Housing Authority
  First Circuit· 2000-03-22· cited 127×
• Kibbe v. Sumski
  First Circuit· 2007-02-20· cited 103×
• Plumley v. Southern Container, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2002-09-13· cited 101×
• Bonas v. Town of North Smithfield
  First Circuit· 2001-09-19· cited 83×
• Arruda v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  First Circuit· 2002-10-30· cited 73×
• United States v. Ahlers
  First Circuit· 2002-09-30· cited 68×
• Reynolds v. Mainegeneral Health
  First Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 61×
• Alvarez-Torres v. Ryder Memorial Hospital, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2009-09-04· cited 59×
• United States v. Hilario
  First Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 51×
• Torretti v. Main Line Hospitals, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2009-09-02· cited 47×
• Arrington v. Wong
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-01-22· cited 47×
• Bryant v. Adventist Health System/West
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-05-20· cited 40×
• Robb Evans & Associates, LLC v. United States
  First Circuit· 2017-03-03· cited 33×
• Kimball v. Land Use Regulation Commission
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2000-02-07· cited 30×
• United States v. Caraballo
  First Circuit· 1999-12-29· cited 27×
• United States v. Levin
  D. Massachusetts· 2016-05-05· cited 26×
• Rodriguez v. American International Insurance Co. of Puerto Rico
  First Circuit· 2005-03-23· cited 24×
• Torres Otero v. Hospital General Menonita
  D. Puerto Rico· 2000-09-28· cited 24×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 4,657×
• Connecticut National Bank v. Germain
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 3,104×
• BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,012×
• Keene Corp. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-05-24· cited 894×
• Correa v. Hospital San Francisco
  First Circuit· 1995-10-31· cited 309×
• United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1985-03-21· cited 229×
• United States v. Gifford
  First Circuit· 1994-03-01· cited 171×
• Gatewood v. Washington Healthcare Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-05-28· cited 140×
• Cleland v. Bronson Health Care Group, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-10-24· cited 128×
• Roberts v. Galen of Virginia, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1999-01-13· cited 125×
• United States v. Charles George Trucking Co., Charles George, Sr. And Dorothy George
  First Circuit· 1987-07-13· cited 114×
• Franklin D. Vickers, of the Estate of Martin Wade Vickers v. Nash General Hospital, Incorporated James R. Hughes, M.D.
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-03-13· cited 109×
• Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Rouse
  First Circuit· 1997-11-10· cited 103×
• Roger Dale Miller, Individually and O/b/o Nick Miller v. Medical Center of Southwest Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-06-14· cited 40×
• Bryan v. Rectors and Visitors
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-09-13· cited 27×
• Smith v. Richmond Memorial Hospital
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-04-17· cited 27×
• Reynolds v. Mercy Hospital
  W.D. New York· 1994-08-24· cited 16×
• Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek
  D. Puerto Rico· 1997-12-31· cited 5×
• Helton v. Phelps County Regional Medical Center
  E.D. Missouri· 1992-07-24· cited 4×

Other cases named Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek
  D. Puerto Rico· 1997-12-31· cited 5×
• Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek
  D. Puerto Rico· 1998-08-06
• Lopez-Soto v. Hawayek
  First Circuit· 1999-04-09