This case involves a 10-year-old female patient with Down syndrome that underwent a surgical procedure to repair a hole between her heart chambers and regulate her blood flow. She underwent a subsequent open-heart procedure to remove scar tissue from a stenotic mitral…
This case involves several special needs students who were sexually assaulted by other students in a school in Idaho. The victimized students suffered from a range of disabilities, including Autism and Down Syndrome. The Plaintiffs all had experienced being bullied…
This case involves a seventeen-year-old boy with Down syndrome who posed for a picture showing him and his artwork. The picture went viral on the Internet /network communications after a website generator featured the picture, labeling it a “Retarded Handicap Generator.” The website allowed users…
The OBGYN employed proper screening with the exception of the triple screen. There was a quality control failure where the result cutoff was set at 1 in 300 instead of the standard 1 in 270. Therefore, there was no abnormal screening reported…
This case involves alleged pesticide/herbicide poisoning of the new residents of a house, resulting in the sickness and birth defects of two young children. A couple and their one-year-old son moved into the house in question, not knowing that the…
