MILLER v. MOBILE COUNTY BD. OF HEALTH

80-244, 80-244A.

409 So.2d 420 (1981)

Glenda A. MILLER and Donald W. Miller v. The MOBILE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH, as Administrator of the Family Planning Clinic. Glenda A. MILLER and Donald W. Miller v. A. H. ROBINS COMPANY, INC.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren L. Finch and Deborah J. Shoemake and Ann E. Taylor of Finch, Shoemake & Taylor, Mobile, for appellants.

Mary Beth Hurm and Peter V. Sintz of Sintz, Pike, Campbell & Duke and Dennis P. McKenna and Joel F. Danley of Holberg, Tully, Holberg & Danley, Mobile, and James T. Pons, Montgomery, for appellees.

R. O. Hughes of Barber, Johnston, Hughes & Whittington, Birmingham, amicus curiae Jefferson County Bd. of Health.


FAULKNER, Justice.

Glenda A. Miller visited the Family Planning Clinic in Mobile, Alabama in June, 1972, to obtain a contraceptive device. The Mobile County Board of Health established the Family Planning Clinic on July 28, 1970. On the advice of the clinic, Mrs. Miller chose an intrauterine device (IUD). The Planning Clinic did not inform Mrs. Miller of the possible side effects or dangers of using an IUD. The Planning Clinic did not give Mrs. Miller a choice of...

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