Legal actions target patient dumping on L.A.’s skid row | LAT | 6.27.07
Prosecutors filed civil complaints on Tuesday accusing two hospitals and a transportation services firm of dumping homeless patients in downtown Los Angeles, including one highly publicized case in which a paraplegic man wearing a colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter near a skid row park in February.
When will civil dumping become criminal dumping? And what about EMTALA?