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153765P.pdf 04/28/2017 Shelby County Health Care Corp v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-3765
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Jonesboro
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Hospital lien. For the court's prior opinion in the matter,
see Shelby Cty. Health Care Corp. v. S. Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co., 798
F.3d 686 (8th Cir. 2015). Plaintiff brought this claim against the
defendants who had settled a wrongful death claim without assigning any of
the recovery to pay the medical expenses the deceased incurred with
plaintiff; held,the district court erred in finding the claim for
impairment of plaintiff's lien was barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine;
the court erred in finding Arkansas courts would apply Arkansas law under
its choice-of-law rules, as Tennessee law applies to this action seeking
relief for impairment of a lien; reversed and remanded for further
proceedings. Judge Shepherd, dissenting.