SUMMERS v. BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ARKADELPHIA

No. 95-1468EA.

91 F.3d 1132 (1996)

Harold SUMMERS, Appellant, v. BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ARKADELPHIA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy L. Henry, Jonesboro, AR, argued, for appellant.

Stuart Paul Miller, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellee.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, HEANEY, McMILLIAN, FAGG, BOWMAN, WOLLMAN, MAGILL, BEAM, LOKEN, HANSEN, MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, en banc.


RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Harold Summers brought this case against Baptist Medical Center Arkadelphia (Baptist), a hospital in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The case arises under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd. Summers claims that he was not appropriately screened for treatment when he was brought in to Baptist's emergency room after a deerhunting accident. The...

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