# Stubbs v. North Memorial Medical Center

> Court of Appeals of Minnesota · November 14, 1989 · 448 N.W.2d 78

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9883410

## Case

- **Full name:** Bonnie J. STUBBS, Appellant, v. NORTH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, Et Al., and Dr. Bryan Hubble, Respondents
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Minnesota
- **Decided:** November 14, 1989
- **Citations:** 448 N.W.2d 78; 17 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1090; 1989 Minn. App. LEXIS 1214
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Forsberg
- **Judges:** Heard
- **Cited by:** 32 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9883410

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining, in declining to recognize cause of action for invasion of privacy, that “it is not the function of this court to establish new causes of action”
- stating that it is not the function of the court of appeals to establish new causes of action
- stating that it is not the function of this court to establish new causes of action

## Opinion text

FORSBERG, Judge
(concurring specially):
I concur with the majority except that I would find that the so-called Patients’ Bill of Rights statute, Minn.Stat. § 144.651 (1988), did not provide for a private cause of action for damages.

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