Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data
The Court’s rejection of group-level data in SFFA portends troubling implications for health equity and health policy.

By Alex Stein On May 31, 2013, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has delivered an immensely important decision: it recognized as actionable a patient’s increased risk of dying resulting from her doctor’s negligent failure to secure timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Dickhoff v. Green, — N.W.2d —, 2013 WL 2363550 (Minn. 2013) This case…