United States Ninth Circuit

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986, 42 USC 1395dd, applies when the patient is on his way to the hospital in a non-hospital-owned ambulance, and does not require the patient to be on hospital premises.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/12/2000
• Decided 01/22/2001
• Published 01/22/2001

Judges

• Before:  CANBY, Jr., REINHARDT, and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Magali V. Sunderland and Hilary Benson Ganges, Trecker & Fritz, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter C.-P. Char and Deborah A. de Quevedo, Char, Hamilton Campbell & Thom, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants-appellees Norbert B. Wong, M.D. and the Emergency Group, Inc., William S. Hunt, Ellen Godbey Carson, and Jason H. Kim, Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant-appellee The Queen's Medical Center., Thomas E. Cook, Lyons, Brandt, Cook & Hiramatsu, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendants-appellees City and County of Honolulu, Clarence Uyema, EMT, and Jerry Ho, EMT.