United States Ninth Circuit
BRYANT v. ADVENTIST HEALTH SYS./W., 00-16399
A hospital cannot be held liable under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), if it negligently fails to detect or mis-diagnoses an emergency medical condition; the EMTALA generally ceases to apply once a hospital admits an individual for inpatient care.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/07/2001
- Decided 05/20/2002
- Published 05/20/2002
Judges
- PAEZ, Circuit Judge., Before: CANBY, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Richard J. Massa,Massa & Associates, Lakeport, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Sonja M. Dahl, Anderson, Galloway & Lucchese, Walnut Creek, CA; John S. Gilmore, Goldsberry, Freeman & Swanson, Sacramento, CA; David A. Heck, Bradley, Curley, Asiano & McCarthy, PC, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.