Amarain Limbozzi, Ignacio et al. v. INCUCAI
Country: ArgentinaYear: 2014
Court: Supreme Court of Justice [Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina]
Citation: A. 1261. XLVII.
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Health systems and financing
Human Rights: Right to health, Right to life
The plaintiffs filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the INCUCAI [Instituto Nacional Central Único Coordinador de Ablación e Implante] that challenged the INCUCAI resolution that prohibits the autologous use of the hematopoietic stem cell originated in placental blood and umbilical cord obtained in the birth of their children. The Federal …Read more
Pardo, Héctor Paulino et al. v. Di Césare, Luis Alberto et al.
Country: ArgentinaYear: 2011
Court: Supreme Court of Justice [Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación Argentina]
Citation: P. 24. XLVI
Health Topics: Child and adolescent health, Disabilities, Health systems and financing, Hospitals, Poverty
Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial, Right to health, Right to life
The plaintiffs, in representation of their daughter, filed an anticipatory protection against the insurance company to cover for the medical treatment and medical instruments that their daughter needed because she suffered a car accident. The plaintiff’s daughter was riding a bicycle that got crushed by a car which dragged her and created many injuries and …Read more
Sigurjonsson v. Iceland
Country: IcelandYear: 1993
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: 16 E.H.R.R. 462 (1993)
Human Rights: Freedom of association, Freedom of expression
The applicant, an Icelandic national, was a taxi driver and resident in Reykjavik, Iceland. He refused to join an automobile association which, inter alia, protected taxi-cab drivers’ rights. Membership of the association was, under an Icelandic law passed in 1989, a prerequisite for acquisition of a taxi-cab driver’s license. The applicant complained that the subsequent refusal …Read more