Legal Opinion
Coles v. Howard University
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided October 31, 2023No. Civil Action No. 2023-2508Published
1Opinion of the Court
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA KATRICE COLES, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 23-2508 (TJK) HOWARD UNIVERSITY et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Plaintiff sued in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, asserting several statutory and common law claims against a hospital and her employer relating to the alleged improper dis- closure of her medical records. Defendants removed. To justify removal, the hospital argued— and Plaintiff did not contest—that this Court has federal-question jurisdiction, and it is true that one claim in the complaint invokes a…
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