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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).