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RODRIGUEZ v. AMERICAN INTERN. INS., PUERTO RICO

No. 03-2256.

402 F.3d 45 (2005)

Joan RODRIGUEZ; Domingo Diaz Rojas; Conjugal Partnership Diaz-Rodriguez, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO; Corporacion de Servicios Integrales de Salud del Area de Barranquitas, Corozal, Naranjito y Orocovis, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 23, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeannette López de Victoria, with whom Pinto-Lugo, Oliveras & Ortiz, PSC was on brief, for appellants.

Ramon L. Walker Merino, with whom Walker Merino Law Office was on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

The question presented is whether a regional diagnostic and treatment center which treats only ambulatory patients and has an emergency room independent of a hospital is subject to the requirements of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd.

The district court, ruling on a suit by the parents of a four-month old baby girl who died after being seen in the emergency room of a Diagnostic and...

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