Forget the hospital -- Children's is not-for-profit Harvard teaching hospital, and Massachusetts has a "charitable cap" of $20,000 damages for non profits. The psychiatry doctors at Children's should be fair game, however. I don't know what sovereign immunity issues would be involved in suing DCF (if we had a honest AG, there would have been a criminal investigation long ago!).
If the case is over(?), does that mean the gag order imposed on her Tufts doctors is automatically lifted?
Thanks for the more detailed info. All I can say for certain is that Lou Pelletier has promised a “firestorm” of lawsuits once Justina is home. He’s had over a year to collect info on who to sue & how. Lawyers don’t typically work for free. If he has a legal team working on commission, which seems likely, they must sense a big payday in the works. I’m not convinced he would bluff about this, since it would actually work against him. My take is that he has identified at least one excellent target, probably more. Time will tell.
Here is an interesting article from Fox News, written by Dr. Keith Ablow. The entire piece is worth reading, but from close to the end of it:
“Now, Justina will be free. And, among other things, what she will be free to do is to sue the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Boston Children’s Hospital and those doctors who insisted all her symptoms were “in her head” for violating her rights and for malpractice. That wasn’t possible until now because she has been in the custody of the Department of Children and Families.
Does that sound like a conflict of interest to you — holding a child against her will, and the will of her parents, when you know that the moment she is released you’ll be sued for what you have done? You bet it does.
Think about potentially $25 or $50 or $100 million in damages paid out by the taxpayers of Massachusetts and malpractice insurers by the time this is over. And, although that will be money well-spent to deter power hungry politicians and doctors from “kidnapping” my kids and your kids and essentially experimenting on them, according to whatever medical theory is in vogue at their hospital, it will never compensate Justina Pelletier and her family for the attempt to destroy her and her family’s dignity, liberty and self-determination.”
Presumably Fox has a legal team, & Dr. Ablow would be advised not to project such hefty settlement possibilities if all or even most of the guilty parties were relatively free of legal jeopardy. Or, if he just went blind with these figures, would they not have been ‘corrected’ by now?