Legal Opinion
Lebron v. Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided March 4, 1998No. Civil 96-2324(SEC)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CASELLAS, District Judge.
Pending before the Court is defendant Dr. Carlos Alvarez Ruiz’s Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) (Docket # 43), filed on August 29,1997. In said motion, Dr. Alvarez requests that plaintiff’s Emergency lyiedical Treatment and Active Labor Act (“EMTALA”) claims against him be dismissed for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted because EMTALA does not create a personal cause of action against individual physicians, only against participating hospitals. Also pending is Dr. Alvarez’s December 4, 1997 Request for…
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