TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A judge is throwing out most of a lawsuit filed by the family of a black woman who died while police forcibly removed her from a Florida hospital where she sought treatment.
U.S. Judge Robert Hinkle dismissed a civil rights claim Monday in the wrongful death lawsuit Barbara Dawson's family filed against the city of Bountstown, the Liberty-Calhoun Hospital, two former hospital employees and a former police officer. False imprisonment and battery claims against the hospital and its former employees were also dismissed.
A claim that the hospital failed to provide emergency care for 57-year-old Barbara Dawson still stands.
Dawson died of a blood clot in her lungs in December 2015 after collapsing in the hospital's parking lot while being handcuffed. Dawson refused to leave the emergency room after complaining of shortness of breath.
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