LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.

SC-2022-0515 & SC-2022-0579 · Supreme Court of Alabama

Holding and boundaries

Held that Alabama's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applied to frozen embryos stored outside a uterus.

Scope and limitations: State-law and jurisdiction-specific decision followed by legislative activity; current Alabama law and practical effects must be checked.

Open authoritative source

1 issue placement

Fertility & Family Formation

LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C. rejects, narrows, limits, or supplies adverse authority relevant to Fertility & Family Formation. Fit tier: Direct. The placement must be used only within the holding and limitations recorded here.

Scope and limitations: State-law and jurisdiction-specific decision followed by legislative activity; current Alabama law and practical effects must be checked.

Verification-state description: authoritative_text_identified; pinpoint_and_currentness_review_required

Publication and provenance

The authority is published once; issue-specific orientation and fit remain separate placements. Analogue, contextual, and historical-adverse fits are not represented as controlling.

Published under research-publication-clearance-2026-07-21. deterministic validation and objective verification are not claimed.