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Sun Hudson case: United States Texas 2004 An infant is removed from life support against his mother's wishes. Baby K: United States Virginia: 1992 The mother of an anencephalic baby wishes to keep the child on life support perpetually. Jesse Koochin: United States Salt Lake City: 2004 Parents wish to keep a child on life support. Spiro ...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), is a landmark [2] [3] [4] United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court upheld Congress's power to enact most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called Obamacare, [5] [6] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), including a requirement for most ...
The defendant is the health care provider. Although a 'health care provider' usually refers to a physician, the term includes any medical care provider, including dentists, nurses, and therapists. As illustrated in Columbia Medical Center of Las Colinas v Bush , 122 S.W. 3d 835 (Tex. 2003), "following orders" may not protect nurses and other ...
Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Vermont statute that restricted the sale, disclosure, and use of records that revealed the prescribing practices of individual doctors violated the First Amendment.
Brian Day, a "private health-care advocate", [2] who founded and serves as the medical director of the private clinic Cambie Surgery Centre and Specialist Referral Clinic [10] in Vancouver, British Columbia, was the spokesman for the high-profile case, sometimes called 'The Day Case'. [11] [12]
John Moore first visited UCLA Medical Center on October 5, 1976, after he was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia.Physician and cancer researcher David Golde took samples of Moore's blood, bone marrow, and other bodily fluids to confirm the diagnosis and recommended a splenectomy because of the potentially fatal amount of swelling in Moore's spleen. [3]
Ultimately, Young instituted a federal habeas action. The court determined that the Community Protection Act was civil and, therefore, it could not violate the double jeopardy and ex post facto guarantees. On appeal, the Court of Appeals reasoned that the case turned on whether the Act was punitive "as applied" to Young. [5] 5th
The Court ruled that Mr. Davila's and Ms. Calad's (the Respondents') state of Texas Causes of Action, both involving Utilization Review decisions by Managed Care entities (in this case CIGNA and Aetna) that were alleged to adversely affect patient care, where in both cases Utilization review decisions contradicted the advice of the Respondents ...