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CRUZ-VÁZQUEZ v. MENNONITE GENERAL HOSP., INC.

No. 09-1758.

613 F.3d 54 (2010)

Hazel I. CRUZ-VÁZQUEZ, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MENNONITE GENERAL HOSPITAL, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 26, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro F. Soler-Muñiz for plaintiffs.

José Héctor Vivas, with whom Vivas & Vivas was on brief, for defendants Brenda M. Torres Perez, her husband, and their conjugal partnership.

Roberto Ruiz Comas for defendants Edward Gomez-Torres and the conjugal partnership Gomez-Torres.

Anselmo Irizarry-Irizarry, with whom Matta & Matta, PSC Law Firm was on brief, for defendant General Mennonite Hospital.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

In this action filed pursuant to Puerto Rico's medical malpractice law, Articles 1802 and 1903 of the Puerto Rico Civil Code, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 31, §§ 5141-42, and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act ("EMTALA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, the district court excluded the testimony of the plaintiffs' lone expert witness at trial. As a result of the court's ruling, the...

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