Ortiz-Lopez v. Sociedad Espanola De Auxilio Mutuo Y Beneficencia De Puerto Rico

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs sued Sociedad Española de Auxilio Mutuo Y Beneficencia de Puerto Rico (hereinafter the “hospital”) in the district court under, inter alia, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the “anti-dumping statute.” 1 EMTALA requires the hospital to “appropriately screen” and “stabilize” the patient before transferring her to another facility. See 42 U.S.C.A. § 1395dd(a) and (b). Plaintiffs are the family of deceased Rosa Rivera, who died after succumbing to an allegedly self-inflicted overdose of painkillers after arriving at…