United States Ninth Circuit

A hospital complies with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act's "appropriate medical screening" requirement if it provides a patient with an examination comparable to other patients with similar symptoms unless the examination is inherently faulty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/13/2000
• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/19/2001

Judges

• Before:  DAVID R. THOMPSON, O'SCANNLAIN and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James M. Braden (argued), San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchell C. Tilner (argued), Mary F. Dant, Encino, California, Thomas J. Donnelly, Sonja M. Dahl, Walnut Creek, California, for defendant-appellee Redbud Community Hospital District., John S. Gilmore (argued), Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellee Adventist Health, Inc.