This document provides an overview and instructions for a case study analysis assignment. It discusses analyzing legal and ethical issues arising from healthcare cases, comparing facts of precedential cases to new cases, and outlining a four-part analysis of facts, issues, reasoning, and holding. Students are asked to examine a case's facts, relevant issues, provide an analysis based on principles, and formulate a conclusion, then discuss resolution strategies on an online forum. The document emphasizes that there are no strictly "correct" answers for case discussions.

1. Case Study for
Problem
Solving
HSA 530
Healthcare Law & Bioethics
Barry University
DNP/Anesthesiology Program
Hollywood, FL

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Case Study
for Problem Solving
Approach
 Analyze legal and ethical issues arising
from the delivery of healthcare services
 Propose strategies for resolution of such
issues

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Court Cases
 A case is “a civil or criminal proceeding,
action, suit, or controversy at low or equity”
decided by a court.
 Black’s Law Dictionary
 Judges make law by applying and
interpreting the law, whether common law or
a statute, on a case by case basis.
 Case law goes from a specific application to
a general application.

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Reasoning by Analogy
 Reasoning reaches an answer by showing
direct factual similarities between
governing case law and the present facts.
 Most often used in case analysis

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Conclusion of Law
 The determination of whether or in what
manner a specific rule of law applies to a
specific set of facts.
 The conclusion of law is reached by a court in
a given dispute depends primarily on 2
factors:
 The facts of the dispute
 The rules of law that are applicable to those
facts

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Conducting an Analysis
 Compare the important facts in the opinion
with the new set of facts in the present
controversy to identify similarities and
differences.
 If there are similarities between the facts and
the rule of law in the opinion and the present
controversy, you can make a prediction
about the outcome of the controversy.

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Four Part Analysis
of
Case Law
 Facts
 Issues
 Analysis
 Holding

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Case Citation
 Describes where a court’s opinion in a
particular case can be located:
 Parties
 The text in which the case can be found
 The court writing the opinion
 The year in which the case was decided

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Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963).
 Gideon v. Wainwright (parties)
 372 U.S. 335 (case is reported in volume
372 of the US Reporter on page 335)
 1963 (court and year in which case was
decided) (case was decided in 1963 by
the US Supreme Court)

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Barry Library Services
 Find databases by title:
 Westlaw
 Lexis

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Gideon v. Wainwright, 153 So.2d 299 (Fla. 1963).

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Discussion Board Forums
 Case Analysis:
 Examine the facts
 Determine the relevant issues
 Analyze the issues
 based upon applicable legal and ethical principles
 Formulate a conclusion
 Discussion:
 Propose strategies for resolving the issues

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No Correct Answers
It’s the thought that counts!