Thomas v. Ascension St. Thomas Midtown Hospital, No. 24-00966, 2025 WL 967159 (M.D. Tenn. Mar. 31, 2025) (Richardson, J.)

Thomas v. Ascension St. Thomas Midtown Hospital, No. 24-00966, 2025 WL 967159 (M.D. Tenn. Mar. 31, 2025) (Richardson, J.)

Re: Request for video footage of plaintiff

Disposition:  Dismissing action

• Procedural Requirements, Entities Subject to the FOIA:  The court holds that “[n]o viable claim to relief is plausibly stated in any of Plaintiff’s pleadings.”  “While the gravamen of the Complaint is its claim that Defendants violated FOIA, that federal statute does not apply to a private entity such as [a hospital], but only to agencies of the federal government.”