Pemberton v. Tallahassee Memorial Regional Medical Center, Inc.

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT

HINKLE, District Judge.

This action arises from a state court’s order compelling plaintiff Laura L. Pem- berton, who was in labor attempting vaginal delivery at home at the conclusion of a full-term pregnancy, to submit to a caesarean section that was medically necessary in order to avoid a substantial risk that her baby would die during delivery. Based on the state court’s order, physicians on the medical staff of the defendant hospital performed the caesarean section, resulting in the birth of a healthy baby. Ms. Pember-ton suffered no…