Rosalyn BROOKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DESERT HOSPITAL CORP., Defendant-Appellee, California Medical Association, Amicus

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that EMTALA applies ‘to any and all patients’
• statute requires only that hospital refrain from transferring patient until patient is stabilized
• “The legislative history of the Act does indicate that Congress intended to prevent hospitals 21 from refusing to treat or from dumping patients who lack insurance coverage.”
• patient may be transferred consistent with the Act while remaining in critical condition
• “The Act does not require [a hospital] to alleviate completely [a patient’s] emergency condition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).