Legal Opinion
Daigle v. Maine Medical Center, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 31, 1994No. 93-1470PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal seeks to test the constitutionality of Maine’s Health Security Act, Me.Rev. Stat.Ann. tit. 24, §§ 2851-2859 (West 1990) (the Health Act), the mechanics of its application in diversity suits, and the appropriateness of sundry evidentiary rulings made during the course of trial in the district court. After assembling the test results, we affirm.
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Background
On or about April 9, 1987, while in her thirty-first week of pregnancy, plaintiff-appellant Dawn Daigle, a New Hampshire resident, developed symptoms associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension. She sought…
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