Tag: Marlise Machado Muñoz

Judge recuses herself from lawsuit to take pregnant woman off of life support

  By Dave Andrusko Without explanation, the Texas judge hearing a suit brought by the family of a pregnant woman said to be brain dead recused herself from the case. The family of Marlise Machado Muñoz brought the lawsuit against JPS Health Network to compel the hospital to take Mrs. Munoz off of life support. …

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Family files suit to remove pregnant woman said to brain dead from life support

  By Dave Andrusko The family of Marlise Machado Muñoz, the pregnant woman who collapsed from an apparent pulmonary embolism November 26 , filed suit in Tarrant County civil court Tuesday, requesting the court to issue an order requiring John Peter Smith Hospital “to immediately cease conducting any further medical procedures and to remove Marlise …

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