Legal Opinion
Fields v. United Network for Organ Sharing
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided May 6, 2025No. 6:24-cv-01434Unknown
1Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION CORTEZ FIELDS, Plaintiff, v. Case No: 6:24-cv-1434-JSS-DCI UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING and ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM/SUNBELT, INC., Defendants. ___________________________________/ ORDER Plaintiff, Cortez Fields, alleges that Defendants, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc., use a “race-based coefficient to artificially increase . . . kidney function . . . scores for Black kidney disease patients” like him and, in so doing, have unfairly prolonged his wait for a kidney…
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