Bragging Rights
08/07/08 17:11 Filed in: Civil Rights
| Medical
Malpractice
Sometimes
the work of a personal injury attorney feels like
toiling away without any reward. Then, on occasion,
being a lawyer has its good days too. I (Pete
Summerill here) am lucky enough to have prevailed in
the cases of Dexter v. Bosko (right of inmate to
bring civil rights action under Utah Constitution)
and Bybee v. Abdulla (preventing a doctor from
forcing wrongful death heirs into private pay-to-play
arbitration for claim of medical malpractice). Now,
those two cases are getting some recognition as well:
Bybee v. Abdulla was just cited in the American
Association for Justice’s monthly magazine Trial and
Dexter v. Bosko will be featured locally in an
article appearing in the Utah Association for
Justice’s publication Utah Trial Journal. I hope that
these decisions will go a long way toward preserving
the rights of wrongful death heirs and the civil
rights of prisoners well into the future.
