Lutheran Medical Center v. City of Omaha

How courts have described this case

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• confirming that city has (1) constitutional obligation, as part of due process, to provide medical attention to persons in police custody and (2
• city has common-law liability to pay for medical treatment required by person in police custody
• state statute required only that care be provided, however, city was obligated under implied contract theory to pay for the treatment of prisoners, based on the special relationship between the custodian and the prisoner
• Cities have a “common-law liability to pay for medical treatment required by a person in police custody, such as a suspect wounded by police in the process of apprehending the suspect and such other persons needing necessary medical care while in custody.”
• Cities have a “common-law liability to pay for medical treatment required by a person in police custody, such as a suspect wounded by police in the process of apprehending the suspect and such other persons needing necessary medical care while in custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).