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HINES v. ADAIR COUNTY PUBLIC HOSP. DIST. CORP.

Civ. A. No. C92-0068-BG(H).

827 F.Supp. 426 (1993)

Craig L. HINES, Plaintiff, v. ADAIR COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT CORP., d/b/a Westlake Cumberland Hospital; T.J. Samson Hospital; Jesus Siady, M.D.; Taylor County Hospital District Health Facilities Corp.; Nasseem Rauf, M.D.; Hugh Barret A. Lessenberry, M.D.; Reddy & Lessenberry, P.S.C., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Kentucky, at Bowling Green.

July 20, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Wiseman, III, C.J. Gideon, Gideon & Wiseman, Nashville, TN, for plaintiff.

H. Jefferson Herbert, Jr., Herbert & Herbert, Glasgow, KY, for T.J. Samson Community Hosp.

Gregory J. Bubalo, Ogden, Newell & Welch, Louisville, KY, for Jesus Siady, M.D.

Joe Bill Campbell, Lanna Martin Kilgore, Campbell, Kerrick & Grise, Bowling Green, KY, Donald K. Brown, Jr., O'Bryan, Brown & Toner, Louisville, KY, for Nasseem Thomas Rauf, M.D.

Donald W. Darby, Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman & Kalur, Louisville, KY, for Hugh Barret A. Lessenberry, M.D. and Reddy & Lessenberry, P.S.C.

John David Cole, Cole, Moore & McCracken, Bowling Green, KY, for Adair County Public Hosp. Dist. Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HEYBURN, District Judge.

This case arises under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act ("EMTALA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, which requires hospital emergency departments to treat all individuals who arrive for treatment having an emergency medical condition. Where common law once imposed no duty to treat, this new federal duty proscribes what is commonly called "patient dumping," a phenomenon exacerbated by increasing economic...

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