MEANS v. U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

No. 15-1779.

836 F.3d 643 (2016)

Tamesha MEANS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS; Stanley Urban; Robert Ladenburger; Mary Mollison, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 8, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Brigitte Amiri , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, for Appellant. Cameron R. Getto , Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellee Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thomas P. Van Dusen , Bodman PLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees Urban, Ladenburger, and Mollison. ON BRIEF: Brigitte Amiri , Alexa Kolbi-Molinas , Louise Melling , Jennifer Dalven , Alyson Zureick , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, New York, Brooke A. Merriweather-Tucker , Daniel S. Korobkin , Michael J. Steinberg , Kary L. Moss , American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant. Cameron R. Getto , Zausmer, August & Caldwell, P.C., Farmington Hills, Michigan, for Appellee Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thomas P. Van Dusen , Dennis J. Levasseur , Michael J. Serra , Bodman PLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees Urban, Ladenburger, and Mollison. Jeffrey E. Ostrow , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, California, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: SILER, BATCHELDER, and GIBBONS, Circuit Judges


OPINION

Plaintiff Tamesha Means miscarried at eighteen weeks' gestation. She sought treatment at a Catholic hospital in western Michigan, which allegedly failed to provide her accurate information or diagnose and treat a serious bacterial infection. Three years later, Means sued, not the hospital or...

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