Court says family can't sue federal doctors over detainee's death
Monday, May 3, 2010 - 22:00
in Health & Medicine
Immigration officials refused a man's repeated requests for a lesion biopsy. After his release, he died of cancer. The family of a Los Angeles-area immigrant who languished in federal detention for nearly a year while a cancerous growth went untreated cannot sue government doctors for medical neglect, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.